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As much as I hate feeding this guy's ego, I do love a good quote. In response to the thread about Linus I was wandering through Wikiquotes[^] and found
Quote: I hope I won't end up having to hunt you all down and kill you in your sleep
It got me thinking: what are your favourite IT related quotes? The "640KB should be good enough for anyone" doesn't count: it's past the statute of limitations.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
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Hey, that one works many times. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Like many quotes, people always forget the surrounding context.
"Is it switched on?"
"Yes."
"Have you tried turning it off and on".
"Yes."
Jacquers wrote: "Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
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Thomas John Watson Sr. was the chairman and CEO of International Business Machines (IBM) and stated in 1943, "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers".
How right he was!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Yes, I expect that was true back in 1943 
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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In his defense, he meant ROOM SIZED mainframes that required $$$millions of investments, tons of air conditioning, and "operators" to "operate" the dang thing.
He was not thinking "toys" people would carry with them and continuously be distracted by 
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Check to see if it floats in salt-water. If it sinks then it was defective.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: If it sinks then it was defective.
NoNoNo.... If it floats, it's defective. If it sinks, it was good. (If the floaters were good, you'd have to keep using them...)
Truth,
James
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Take your laptop, or better still, you cell phone, and test my hypothesis.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I think you're missing the point (the point: You want to ensure the thing being "tested" is replaced, one way or another)
Truth,
James
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If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
In relation to other recent news 
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"It works on my machine."
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For comedy value, you can't beat:
"Windows 10 is the best Windows ever!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm never sure if I've heard a joke somewhere or made it up myself (I like to think the latter) but...
What's the difference between Windows 1.0 and Windows 10?
Windows 10 has no point!
I'll get my coat.
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Unfortunately, there's one thing I can't blame winio for, and that's the 191 lines of reply to you that simply vanished because I dared to use the COMCTL32 Save window (it's not a dialog), which crashed notepad++ simply because I wanted to save what I had already written (I could still see the window, behind the "Notepad++ has crashed" notification, so I know it was 191 lines) (google the problem, and just imagine my anger at having lost so much time because of a @#$%^&* OS error).
That problem has existed since weven, and it's a pretty fruggin' major problem, but adding baby blocks and spyware were obviously more important to MS than fixing major problems for their users.
I'll go through it all again when my blood pressure drops below volcanic.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Chris Maunder wrote: what are your favourite IT related quotes?
How is yours IT related? 
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Well, at least you're not a Linux evangelist.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Obviously you haven't had to work with Marketing!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I never said it didn't apply to IT. I'm simply saying not only to IT. More like, anyplace anywhere anytime 
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Zeker, maar het was Linux Torvalds.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"Umm that's not a drink holder ma'am. That's your CD-ROM drive"
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David Bradley was the guy that wrote the original code for CTRL-ALT_DEL to reboot the IBM PC. During a 20 year PC anniversary event Bradley and Bill Gates were both on stage as part of a panel discussion when the topic of the keys came up.
"I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous." ~ David Bradley (IBM retired)
Gates didn't laugh.
That's what I do. I drink, and I know things. ~ Tyrion Lannister
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You're missing the S in Torvalds for the link, but don't quote me on that.
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I'd rather have a bottle in front of me instead of a frontal lobotomy.
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