Quotation collection

This is my collection, sort by arrival. If you know the author, please send me an email.

In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates ?
Sun Microsystems

The box said "Requires Windows 95 or better", so I installed Linux.

The trouble with computers is: they do what you tell them to do, not what you want them to do.

"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."

I had a life once... now I have a computer and a modem.

"PEBKAC. Problem exits between Keyboard and Chair."

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."
Henry Ford

Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive ;-)

You need to work smarter, not harder !

Integrity - Doing the right thing...even when no one is looking.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984

"All your base are belong to us"
Sometimes abbreviated AYBABTU or simply AYB, is a poor translation that become an Internet phenomenon

Windows: "Where do you want to go today?"
Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?"
MacOS X: "Are you guys coming, or what?"

Security through obscurity.

This wouldn't have happened if you were using a Mac.
Macintosh User

Never trust a computer you can't lift.
Macintosh itself, 1984

Apple easy of use.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix

The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned to the project.

The realization that one has sacrificed a more important value (family, love, home, youth) for a less important value (work) is devastating. It makes the person who has unwittingly sacrificed seek revenge.
Tom De Marco

I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp; I know what I want to do, but I don´t know where to begin.
Stephen Bayne

In business the best time to perform an autopsy is when the patient is still alive.
Mark Stevens

Imagine the world as it will be when you’re done.
Jim McCarthy

Why does the villain not simply shoot Bond?
Richard Rouse III


Pac-Man was originally named Puck-Man, a reference to the puck-like shape of the main character. Nakamura worried about American vandals changing the „P“ to an „F“.
Steven L. Kent

Everquest would be the 35th largest city in the U.S.
Robert Pfister

It doesn´t matter how cool your game is if you don´t ship it.
Matthew Toschlog, Outrage Entertainment

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Sir Francis Bacon

There´s no "I" in "team".
Andrew Rollings

When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
Will Rogers

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
Howard Ruff

Don´t manage, lead.
Jack Welch

If all you have is a hammer, everything resembles a nail.

People hate to and will not read instructions.
Nolan Bushnell

This game didn´t get released, it escaped.

People are people, even in cyberspace.
Amy Jo Kim

We never lose, we just run out of time.
Vince Lombardi

Speed is useful only if you are running in the right direction.
Joel Arthur Barker

You’ve only ever failed when you give up.
Sean Connery

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
George Bernard Shaw

I never make mistakes twice. I make them five or six times, just to be sure.



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