Quote #86

Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet.

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  1. [The World Wide Web is] the only thing I know of whose shortened form - www - takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.
  2. The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ign…
  3. First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII - and we thought it was a typewrite…
  4. I first saw this program in the same week that evidence was discovered of life on Mars. This is more exciting.
  5. The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%.
  6. You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
  7. He started to count to ten. He was desperately worried that one day sentient life forms would forget how to do this. Only by counting could…
  8. A learning experience is one of those things that say, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.'

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