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Re: Quote-o-rama

Nigel — Wed Dec 21, 2005 12:48 pm

Author: Nigel

Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 12:48 pm

"fortune" threw this at me today...

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home."
- Ken Olson, President of DEC, World Future Society Convention, 1977

Re: Quote-o-rama

wyliecoyoteuk — Thu Oct 27, 2005 9:59 pm

Author: wyliecoyoteuk

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 9:59 pm

how about "I expect that there is a world market for about 10 or 12"
IBM president about the first IBM mainframe

EDIT just looked at this again, and saw Ollies quote. Not sure how I missed it sorry

Re: Quote-o-rama

nelz — Thu Oct 27, 2005 6:58 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 6:58 pm

How large? Bigger than you?

Re: Quote-o-rama

M-Saunders — Thu Oct 27, 2005 5:04 pm

Author: M-Saunders

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 5:04 pm

Nobber, next time you visit the site, don't be surprised if you see a large, er, 'quote' saying "YOU ARE BANNED". Oh, and the quote may have other side-effects too, such as making the rest of the site inaccessible. And your computer exploding.

M

Re: Quote-o-rama

Nobber — Thu Oct 27, 2005 4:58 pm

Author: Nobber

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 4:58 pm

What about this?

"Mike Saunders is smaller than I had imagined." --Nobber

I didn't give it much thought when I said it, but given the cheerful mockfest it led to, it was obviously pithier than I could have known at the time.

Re: Quote-o-rama

ollie — Thu Oct 27, 2005 12:13 pm

Author: ollie

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 12:13 pm

My favourite:

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
-- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

I think we can all say, thankfully, he was wrong!

Re: Quote-o-rama

M0PHP — Thu Oct 27, 2005 11:16 am

Author: M0PHP

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 11:16 am

Well I'm just copying off ThinkGeek...

Re: Quote-o-rama

Lejon — Thu Oct 27, 2005 3:41 am

Author: Lejon

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 3:41 am

or "Ther's no place like $HOME"
but thats ofcourse too obvius to be funny

Re: Quote-o-rama

M0PHP — Wed Oct 26, 2005 11:10 pm

Author: M0PHP

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 11:10 pm

Erin wrote:

M0PHP wrote:

There's No Place Like 127.0.0.1.

Shouldn't that be "there is no place like ~/"?

Well, that work's too I suppose..

Re: Quote-o-rama

Erin — Wed Oct 26, 2005 9:29 pm

Author: Erin

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 9:29 pm

M0PHP wrote:

There's No Place Like 127.0.0.1.

Shouldn't that be "there is no place like ~/"?

Re: Quote-o-rama

Rhakios — Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:58 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:58 pm

I have noticed one Tom Lehrer quote so far, but my favourite (and so far not seen here), indeed my entire philosophy of life can be summed up by:

"Life is like a sewer, what you get out of it depends on what you put into it."

Sometimes I am left speechless while contemplating the deep truths embodied by the above. <insert philosophical smiley here>

Re: RE: Re: RE: Quote-o-rama

Flea — Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:08 pm

Author: Flea

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:08 pm

M0PHP wrote:

Flea wrote:

Q: What's the difference between a computer and a Woman?

A: A computer doesn't laugh at a 3 1/2" floppy!

[basil brush]Boom! Boom![/basil brush]

Sorry, if that's going a little too far just zap this post

Or, A: Nothing, they both complain when you press the wrong buttons

It would be funny if it wasn't so true

Re: RE: Re: RE: Quote-o-rama

M0PHP — Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:29 am

Author: M0PHP

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:29 am

Flea wrote:

Or, A: Nothing, they both complain when you press the wrong buttons

Re: Quote-o-rama

M0PHP — Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:27 am

Author: M0PHP

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:27 am

There's No Place Like 127.0.0.1.

There are ony 10 types of people in this world - those who understand binary, and those who don't.

/(bb|[^b]{2})/ that is the Question
- Shakespeare

RE: Re: RE: Quote-o-rama

Flea — Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:11 am

Author: Flea

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:11 am

Q: What's the difference between a computer and a Woman?

A: A computer doesn't laugh at a 3 1/2" floppy!

[basil brush]Boom! Boom![/basil brush]

Sorry, if that's going a little too far just zap this post