Quotes & Information about Computers!!!

Quotes & Information about Computers!!!

Stupid quotes:

“I knew then (in 1970) that a 4-kbyte minicomputer would cost as much as a house. So I reasoned that after college, I’d have to live cheaply in an apartment and put all my money into owning a computer.”

-[Apple co founder Steve Wozniak]

“A bit of tolerance is worth a megabyte of flaming”.

-[Henry Spencer, Canadian computer programmer and author of The 10 Commandments for C Programmers]

Did u Know!!!

» About 85% of microwave radiation emitted by a cellphone is absorbed by your head.

» According to research by Sprint, about 2/3rds of cellphone users use their backlights as torches.

» South Korean teenagers on average text an astounding 200,000 times a year. That is 60.1 messages EVERY

» Day.

» People view fifteen billion videos online every month.

» The first GPS satellite was launched in 1978.

» This is known as the Hermann-grid illusion, and experts don’t have an explanation for the dark spots that appear in the grid.

he The cellphone is actually a very complicated radio that communicates with the cell tower in the area.

» 130 million cell phones each year go into retirement.

» Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

» The annual revenue for the telephone industry is $210 billion, almost 8 times that of television and 23 times the revenue of radio.

» The original name of the telephone was the harmonic telegraph.

» Alexander Graham Bell originally wanted the greeting for the telephone to be “Ahoy” but Thomas Edison

» voted for “Hello,” a word he coined in 1877.

» The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobiles 112.

» Recycling 100 million phones would recover 3.4 metric tons of gold—gold that would not have to be mined.

» The busiest telephone exchange was by BellSouth at the 1996 Olympic Games, where 100 billion bits of information were transmitted per second.

» The first product to have a bar code on its package was Wrigleys chewing gum.

» The average person’s left hand does 56 percent of the typing.

» Your mobile battery is very low, you are expecting an important call and you don’t have a charger. Many Nokia phones come with a reserve battery. To activate the battery, key-in *3370# your cell will restart with this reserve and your instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your mobile next time.