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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to
build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying
to
produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
'Abolish walls and fences then we can get rid of Windows and Gates'
"Life is God's gift to you, what you do with it is your gift to God"
"A ship is safe at harbor, but that isn't what ships were designed for. Sail out and try new things." Rear Admiral Grace Hopper - Grandmother of today's computers.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
There are three kinds of people: those who can count and those who can't.
There are 10 types of people: those who can count in binary and those who can't.
y "Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." --Art Linkletter
"DOS Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form." -New York Times, November 26, 1991
If left isn't right, right's all that's left, right?
The growth of mankinds' knowledge can be measured by the alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about.
Who cares if its been done before - its the challenge that counts!
"How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn't live there?"
This is a case supporting Mark Twain's observation that, "Figures don't lie but liars figure!"
There's no such thing as gravity. The Earth sucks.
Have you seen the latest Apple t-shirt???
It says "Apple: Windows 95 features since 1984"
The T-shirts around Cupertino read:
Windows 95 = Macintosh 85
Shouldn't that read
Windows 95 < Macintosh 85
I.B.M. -- I Believe in Macintosh
"The purpose of having an open mind, like having an open mouth, is to close it on something solid." -- G. K. Chesterton
GOOD JUDGEMENT COMES FROM EXPERIENCE. EXPERIENCE COMES FROM BAD JUDGEMENT.
My karma ran over my dogma.
""Bill Gates, chief executive officer of Microsoft, offered his support of Jobs's return, "Macintosh always has been and always will be a big part of our applications software business, and Apple is the preeminent R&D site for Microsoft system software. We believe Steve will revitalize Apple's work in system software and provide us something to copy for the next 10 to 20 years. Expect to see examples of Steve's vision in our next version of Windows, code-named Cleveland." -
"Ever wonder why PC users always seem to start the MAC vs PC fight? It's as if they're worried that PCs really _aren't_ as good as MACs, and they need to prove it. Insecure? I think so." - mstscott
"DOS, WIN, DLL, PIF, INI, DMA, IRQ - Need I say more? MAC...the only three letters you need to know!"- Marc Kodama
"What is Microsoft's definition of plug and play? It's 'plug' in your phone and call tech support while they 'play' with your computer!" - Jason Morris
"Apple Computer is the last remaining obstacle between Bill Gates and total industry control (of all information technology)." - Jack Carr
"Using a Mac to run windows is like driving a Ferrari down a dirt road!" - Jack Carr
"Bill Gates did not copy the Macintosh OS completely...his is still a lot worse" - Jedi Knight
"Yes, you can have my mac...when you pry my cold, dead fingers off it." - Jedi Knight
"Windows sucks"
"If Bill Gates was an office appliance, he would be a xerox machine, seeing how he can take an operating system and copy it, and get a result that still is not as good as the original."
"Windoze is like a Cheap Honda. Lots of them, really crappy. Macs are like Ferarris. There are not many, but a damn good machine"
"Windows 95 is an OS for educated people. Macintosh is an OS for smart people. You have to be pretty damn educated to know how to use windows. - Ben Garber
"Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive." Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001, A Space Odyssey, on the first words he would have liked HAL, his fictional computer to speak." - from US News & World Reports, March 31, 1997
"PC is the entrance to the Gates of hell." - nadgv-33
"I.B.M.= Intensely Boring Machine." - dougb
"IBM = I Bought Mac." - Edward Krakowiak
"IBM should take a RISC!" - eric
"I.B.M. = I Bought Mac" - Edward Krakowiak
"Intel Inside = Idiot Outside" - Keith Ketover
"M.A.C. = Most Advanced Computer." - Adrian D. Belvin
"Intel Inside... The World's Most Widely Used Warning Label." - K. Senical
"M.I.C.R.O.S.O.F.T. means - Mac Imitation from a Corrupt Roguish Organization, Selling Only Faulty Tech." - Adrian D. Belvin
"Windows users spend time working ON their computers, while Macintosh users are working WITH theirs!" - Mark Gustafson
"Windows 95 = Macintosh 89" - Austin
"Yes, apple has a 3 percent market share, yet, BMW has a 1 percent market share and you dont see them going outta business!" - Mac Addict Magazine
"Using the mac is like a day of skiing on 10 inches of packed powder with good friends. Using Windows 95 is like a day of skiing on a windswept, rocky, icy slopes with a really good looking instructor who doesn't care the least about your progress." - Ted Warren
"Why do I think that my mac is better than Windows 95? You can put sideburns and sunglasses on a 50-year-old guy... But that don't make him Elvis" - Ron Erak
"Microsoft recently assigned a one-hundred man team to their Macintosh division, the largest Mac team outside of Apple, to help Apple out. I guess they really want Apple to stay in business so that Bill will have something to copy." - Mark Tyrrell
"Friends don't let friends do DOS." - Curt
"Wintel users, get a life : get a Mac." - FrÈdÈric SARROBERT
"Intel Inside! It's not a trademark, It's a warning." - Ed and Andrew Chantra
"Saying Windows 95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the Second Coming." - Guy Kawasaki
"Macintosh System 7.5.2 is by far the easiest, smoothest, most usable operating system out there." - (PC Computing)
"Market acceptance non withstanding, Windows is far, far behind the Macintosh." - (Computer Reseller news)
"Windows 95 is an 'edifice of bailing wire, chewing gum, and a prayer." - (The New York Times, August 2, 1995)
"WinDOS 95 - Retro is back in fashion." - deej
"Sure, you all make fun of poor littly Billy, but I feel very sorry for him. He has spent millions and millions of dollars trying to copy the Mac, and he still can't get it right." - Fred Leonard
"Use a mac if you want, use a PC if you need (or is forced to)." - Miki
"About 120 million people are using DOS world wide. Lucky us that the other 4 million Mac users get the work done..... " - Lennart Broekhof
"If you elimate the impossible what ever remains however improbable must be the truth. Unless you work with Windows 95." - microbit
"Dont worry about Windows 97, Its coming out in a couple years." - Michael Shapiro
"There are more roches than people on the earth. There are more PC Users than Mac Users on the earth. Do you get what I'm saying?"
"If Apple goes out of business, where will Bill Gates get all of his ideas?" - unknown author
"...to create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new, and really captures people's imagination...and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard." - Bill Gates
"Hiroshima 45, Tchernobyl 86, Windows 95"
"In the box, I saw 'Windows 95 or better', so i bought a Macintosh." - fmart
"Windows 95: Five years ago, corporate software giant, Microsoft, spent millions of dollars, and put a team of hundreds of highly specialized programmers on an extensive and highly ambitious project to find another name for the Apple Menu." - David R. Hendrickson
"Loved Windows 95 when it was called System 7." - Matthew Boehm
"If I had a dollar for every original idea Bill Gates Had...Why, I'd Have Nothing!" - Matthew Boehm
"Bill Gates is a smart man, he did pick the best company to copy." - Video Puppy
"To see tomorrow's PC, look at today's Macintosh." - RainMan
"I preffered Windows 95 when it was called System 6.0." - Dream Thief
"I love Windows 95!! I've been using it on my mac for 10 years now." - Rishi K. Patel
"The history of the PC ( or was it computer ) industry can be summarized as an attempt to keep up with Apple" - Byte Magazine, 1994
"Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?" - Tom Clancy
"Gates is the devil incarnate." - murph
"Macs Rule!" - Larry Richelli
"Once you go Mac, you'll never go back." Windows '95=Macintosh '84 - Kevin Oppenheimer
"Being a Mac user is like being a Navy SEAL: a small, elite group of people with access to the most sophisticated technology in the world, whom everyone calls on to get the really tough jobs done quickly and efficiently." - Enigma
"The Disk Operating System (DOS), is used and operated by over 7 million people world wide, but as a Mac loyalist would say, like cockroaches, numbers do not denote a higher life form..." - MacWeek
REDMOND (CCN) Citing the event as a new era of peace and co-operation, Bill Gates today announced Microsoft's purchase of Netscape. Said Gates: "Hopefully now the world knows we're serious about the Web." Microsoft's first move will be to combine the two browsers, with the MINE (Microsoft Internet Netscape Explorer) browser due this year. "When we release this version," said Gates, "all Web access will be MINE." -- Anonymous
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