Misc. Quotes (mostly technology related)

[Chris Swingler]

Here's some stuff I pulled off of usenet (go to Google Groups here).  It's a lot.  Some of it is quite entertaining.

"Why doesn't DOS ever say "EXCELLENT command or filename!"- Anon
"C:\DOS C:\DOS\RUN \RUN\DOS\RUN"- Anon
"Shell to DOS... Come in DOS, do you copy? Shell to DOS..."- Anon
"We're thinking about upgrading from SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5."- Henry Spencer
"The world will end in 5 minutes. Please log out..."- Anon
"WARNING: Keyboard Not Attached. Press F10 to Continue."- Anon
"COFFEE.EXE missing. Insert cup and press any key."- Anon
"Bad Command or File Name. Good try, though."- Anon
"Press any key... no, no, no, NOT THAT ONE!"- Anon
"Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue..."- Anon
"Error reading FAT record. Try the SKINNY one? (Y/N)"- Anon
"General Failure's Fault. Not Yours."- Anon
"Hit any user to continue."- Anon
"Scandisk is now checking your hard disk. You can start praying."- Anon
"Smash forehead on keyboard to continue."- Anon
"Earth is 98% full. Please delete anyone you can."- Anon
"Ooops. My brain just hit a bad sector."- Anon
"Cannot find REALITY.SYS...Universe Halted."- Anon
"What goes up must come down. Ask any system administrator."- Anon
"Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?"- Anon

"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would
today cost $100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone
inside."- Robert X Cringely

"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the
possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."- Mitch Ratliffe

"Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand."- Anon

"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."- Steve Wozniak

"If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation...?"- Anon

"The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood
is going to beat the damn monster."- Adam Smith

"The computer is a moron."- Peter Drucker

"If you put a billion monkeys in front of a billion typewriters typing at random, they would
reproduce the entire collected works of Usenet in about ... five minutes."- Anon

--Beanie

[Michael Kennedy]

"If you put a billion monkeys in front of a billion typewriters typing at random, they would reproduce the entire collected works of Usenet in about ... five minutes."- Anon

I'm not sure if that is a joke or not.   :-D