The telephone wire, as we know it, has become too slow and too small
 to handle Internet traffic. It took 75 years for telephones to be
 used by 50 million customers, but it took only four years for the
 Internet to reach that many users. 
 - Lori Valigra 
 
 640K ought to be enough for anybody. 
 - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981 
 
 The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. 
 - B. F. Skinner 
 
 Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the
 things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. 
 - Andy Rooney 
 
 I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. 
 - IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943 
 
 If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to
 show you how it's done.
 - Scott Adams 
 
 In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would
 have taken many men many months to equal it. 
 - Anonymous 
 
 If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee.
 That will do them in. 
 - Bradley's Bromide 
 
 There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.
 We don't believe this to be a coincidence. 
 - Jeremy S. Anderson 
 
 One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do
 the work of one extraordinary man. 
 - Elbert Hubbard 
 
 Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be. 
 - David Thornburg 
 
 Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer are called
 hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are
 called software. 
 - Anonymous 
 
 We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology,
 in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. 
 - Carl Sagan 
 
 If you tried to read every document on the web, then for each day's
 effort you would be a year further behind in your goal. 
 - Anonymous 
 
 There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was
 nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but
 created them. 
 - Margaret Thatcher 
 
 The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. 
 - Jerry Olson 
 
 The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they
 foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little. 
 - Porterfield 
 
 Everything that can be invented has been invented. 
 - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 
 
 Any science or technology which is sufficiently advanced is
 indistinguishable from magic. 
 - Arthur C. Clarke 
 
 Never let a computer know you're in a hurry. 
 - Anonymous 
 
 A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe
 in God. 
 - Alan J. Perlis 
 
 I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. 
 - Thomas Edison 
 
 Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not
 going to buy your product. 
 - Joe Keenan, President of Atari, in 1976 responding to Steve Jobs'
 offer to sell him rights to the new personal computer he and Steve
 Wozniak developed 
 
 The Internet is a great way to get on the net. 
 - Senator Bob Dole 
 
 Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps
 only weigh 1 1/2 tons. 
 - Popular Mechanics, 1949 
 
 >From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it
 had bugs in it. 
 - Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy 
 
 Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less
 desirable it becomes. 
 - Andrew Heller, IBM 
 
 AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know
 how to survive. 
 - Jan Horsfall, VP of marketing for Lycos 
 
 How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and
 Microsoft? 
 - Al Gore on Y2K 
 
 The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the
 nonexistent. 
 - Sydney Brenner in 1927 
 
 There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their
 home. 
 - Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the
 Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977 
 
 During my service in the United States Congress, I took the
 initiative in creating the Internet. 
 - Al Gore describing his 1986 legislation to interconnect five
 supercomputer centers (17 years after the first Internet servers
 hooked up) 
 
 If Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell-check. 
 - Former Vice President J. Danforth Quayle 
 
 The day I made that statement, I was tired because I'd been up all
 night inventing the Camcorder.
 - Al Gore attempting damage control