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Famous IT Quotes
"All computers wait at the same speed."
"Profanity is the one language all programmers know
best."
"hAS aNYONE sEEN MY cAPSLOCK kEY ?"
"I'm in the computer business, I make Out-Of-Order
signs. "
"On the negative side, I've been getting charged for a
ton of stuff I didn't order lately. On the positive
side, I did win that 'Who's Got the Best Password'
contest on AOL last week."
- Spike Donner
"Daddy, why doesn't this magnet pick up this floppy
disk ?"
"Daddy, what does FORMATTING DRIVE C mean ?"
"You know you're a geek when... You try to shoo a fly
away from the monitor with your cursor. That just
happened to me. It was scary."
- Juuso Heimonen
"I rigged my cellular to send a message to my PDA,
which is online with my PC, to get it to activate the
voicemail, which sends the message to the inbox of my
email, which routes it to the PDA, which beams it back
to the cellular. Then I realized my gadgets have a
better social life than I do." !"
- Tom Ostad
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be
seriously considered as a means of communication."
- Western Union internal
memo, 1876
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
- Lord Kelvin, president,
Royal Society, 1895
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
- Charles H. Duell,
Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
"I think there is a world market for maybe five
computers."
- Thomas Watson, chairman of
IBM, 1943
"Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with
18 000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers of
the future may have only 1 000 vacuum tubes and
perhaps weigh 1½ tons."
- Popular Mechanics, March
1949
"I have traveled the length and breadth of this
country and talked with the best people, and I can
assure you that data processing is a fad that won't
last out the year."
- The editor in charge of
business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
"But what... is it good for ?"
- An engineer at the
Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM,
commenting on the microchip in 1968
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in
their home."
- Ken Olson,
president/founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
"The only truly secure computer is one buried in
concrete, with the power turned off and the network
cable cut."
"Technical accessibility is not enough to make a
website easy to use,"
- Jakob Nielsen
"Yahoo is like a good old friend, and it just works,"
- Jakob Nielsen
"A good web site is not about technology. It is about
communication and reaching your customers,"
- Jakob
Nielsen
"With most people still accessing the web through a
dial-up modem, the "biggest sin" in web design is
assuming that everyone has a high-speed connection,"
- Jakob Nielsen
"With pleasant high-resolution screens,
we may finally start seeing the death of paper."
-
Jakob Nielsen
"Eventually, computers will take on the
role of a good secretary and protect their users."
-
Jakob Nielsen
“I guess these experts felt that if they gave away all
of their secrets, it would make them less valuable. I
feel exactly the opposite.”
-
Scott Kelby
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