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- Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904 - 1967), speaking of Albert Einstein
- I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
- The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
- Alan Perlis
- I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
- Fritz Perls
- If you don't know what to do, call the media and at least give the appearance of doing something.
- David Peterson
- In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
- Pliny the Elder (23 AD - 79 AD)
- Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.
- unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949
- The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.
- Joe Martin, Porterfield
- Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
- Putt's Law
- I hate life, I hate death and everything in between just doesn't interest me.
- Chris Rapier
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