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Tuesday, March 15, 2005
 
Quotes
Random Quotes that I enjoy

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.
Donald Rumsfeld

Antitrust laws were written to protect consumers, not competitors. If Microsoft is to fail, let it be because we failed to innovate, not because our innovations were outlawed.
Bill Gates

When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free"
Linus Torvalds

Unix was not designed to stop people from doing stupid things, because that would also stop them from doing clever things."
Doug Gwyn

The distinctive difference between PCs and other consumer electronics is that only PCs are allowed to fail in routine use.
Peter Coffee

It is easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of computers by the sense of accomplishment you get from getting them to work at all.
Douglas Adams

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
Jeff Raskin


Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V. Berard, "Life-Cycle Approaches"

Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization.
Jon Bentley

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
Robert Wilensky

The Internet is a powerful example of free speech and the free market in action; it is curious that the Net has alarmed the lawmakers of a nation founded on those principles.
Denise Caruso

I would be content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Anna Quindlen

You'll have to pry my Emacs from my cold dead oversized control-pressing left pinky finger.
Randal L. Schwartz, in gnu.emacs.help, quoted by Edward O'Connor

What I find most amusing about com and .NET is that they are trying to solve a problem I only had when programming using MS tools.
MaxM

But it used to work.
Let's document it, so we can all figure it out.
We need to fix all the bugs.
Tell me all the specific unknowns at this time.
I'm much too busy to work on this, so can you ...
PHB

One mark of a deteriorating society is when people cannot discern between truth and lies. Another is that they don't care and will believe whatever their itching ears want to hear.
Cal Thomas


We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around.
Ronald Reagan


Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant or an enemy, must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.
Aesop

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.
William Penn



- posted by Steve @ 12:29 PM
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