Here are some of my favorite quotes from the weekly issues of the Rumor
Manager...
Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.
__ * Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless
march of science, 1949
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
__ * Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked
with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't
last out the year.
__ * The editor in charge of business books
for Prentice Hall, 1957
But what ... is it good for?
__ * Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems
Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
__ * Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder
of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection
is demoralizing.
__ * Dr. Harriet Braiker
I didn't hear about this one until last week's column was submitted.
How about a web site for people born on 2.29. Yep, for Leap Babies. Founded by Raenell
Dawn born on Feb. 29, 1960 as part of the Honor Society of Leap Day Babies. Check
it out at: http://www.leapdaybabies.com.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people
can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
__ * Margaret Mead
Today decides Tomorrow. Make it Count!
__ * Darla Lewis
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth
and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever
young and ardent, sees the possible... what wine is so fragrant, so intoxicating,
as possibility!
__ * Soren Kierkegaard
The Internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996.
__ * Robert Metcalfe, inventor of the Internet
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We
have plenty of messenger boys.
__ * Sir William Preece, of the British Post
Office, in 1876.
People who never get carried away should be.
__ * Malcolm Forbes
We have reached the limits of what is possible with computers
__ * John van Neuman, 1949
The most important thing to do in solving a problem is to begin.
__ * Frank Tyger
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's
tough is being good every day.
__ * Willie Mays
I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery of Tombstone,
Arizona. It says, 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that
is the greatest epitaph a man can have when he gives everything that is in him to
do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have
tried to do.
__ * Harry S. Truman
If the average user's privacy is left up to Microsoft's and
Netscape's choice of defaults, then God help them all.
__ * Privacy advocate Jason Catlett, president
of Junkbusters, in Green Brook, N.J., speaking about the P3P specification.
One difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one
often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't!
__ * Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), U.S.
clergyman, abolitionist
In fact, many at IBM and Oracle have come to the conclusion
that Sun's failure to place Java in the public domain means that Sun's long-term
ambition is to simply replace one tyrant with another one based in Mountain View,
Calif.
__ * Michael Vizard, InfoWorld Editor in
Chief.
This week's site is aimed at the person who is somewhat Mac literate but must
for some reason work in the Windows world as well. So it helps with conversions and
explanations on how things work. If you are one who must cross platforms on a regular
or even irregular basis, you should check out: http://www.macwindows.com/
I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind.
Being broke is a temporary situation.
__ * Mike Todd Its better, sometimes, to
know some of the questions than all of the answers. -J Thurber
I'm comfortable with money, and it's comfortable with me.
__ * Diana Ross
Forever
__ * Jeff Bezos in response to a woman at
PC Expo who asked how long Amazon.com planned to keep her purchase history data.
(Quote from Information Week).
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn,
but to unlearn."
__ * Gloria Steinem
If you don't know what you want to do, it's harder to do it.
__ * Malcolm Forbes
It's just another form of grabbing eyeballs. The question I
would ask is, are those the eyeballs you really want?
__ * Harry Wolhandler, vice president of
research at Web marketing analysis firm ActivMedia Research in Peterborough, N.H.,
speaking about services that pay people to surf the Web. (Quoted in InfoWorld e-mail
newsletter.)
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth
and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever
young and ardent, sees the possible... what wine is so fragrant, so intoxicating,
as possibility!
__ * Soren Kierkegaar
The longer the major labels take to come up with an alternative,
the longer the next generation will be familiar with the idea of 'Music should be
free.' So, in a way, the industry has brought it on themselves.
__ * Steve Curry, spokesman for Redwood City,
Calif.-based eMusic. (via InfoWorld)
They can because they think they can...
__ * Virgil
By the turn of this century, we will live in a paperless society.
__ * Roger Smith, chairman of General Motors,
1986
Microsoft.NET is a nonstarter. Ignore it. If by some miracle
it succeeds, you'll pay little penalty for waiting. You have no reason to be an early
adopter (and of what? There's no product!) and lots of reasons to wait and see what
happens.
__ * Bob Lewis, InfoWorld columnist in "IS
Survival." from InfoWorld e-newsletter
I got the following quote from a sig on the Infinity Loop mailing
list, I just couldn't resist showing it: "How dare the government intervene
to stifle innovation in the computer industry! That's Microsoft's job, dammit.
__ * MacAddict
I believe in the Bluetooth fairy. But you have to be careful.
Some people are thinking we could be talking to satellites and embedding computers
in clothing. The killer application is simply replacing cords.
__ * Galen Schreck, an analyst at Forrester
Research discussing the promise of Bluetooth technology. (Detroit Free Press, 8/31/00)
Try to realize, and truly realize that what stands between you
and a different life are matters of choice.
__ * Gary Zukav
Pre-empt Doris Day? Are you out of your mind?
__ * CBS President Bob Wood in 1970, turning
down the chance to broadcast Monday Night Football.
They're claiming that Internet file downloads are covered by
the same license as, ahem, 'record clubs,' and thus we are owed nothing. I call this
racketeering and so should you.
__ * Courtney Love demanding her share of
Universal's windfall from the MP3.Com case
Nonsense, man! They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--
__ * The last words of U.S. Gen. John B.
Sedgewick as he sized up the Battle of Spotsylvania in 1864.
#5. Revert your computer back to normal.
__ * Number 5 of Microsoft's Top Ten reasons
to "upgrade" to Windows ME.
Anyone who puts stats together knows that most stats are bullshit
... 89.67 percent of them to be exact.
__ * Billy Young National Joy Band San Francisco,
Calif.
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people
who annoy me.
__ * Fred Allen
We've got to make sure we don't create organizations with a
CEO at the top, a computer in the middle, and lots of workers at the bottom,
__ * business-advice author Robert T. Tomasko
said. (The above two quotes from the daily newsletter of Information Week.)
We're not going to launch any products where we'd have to add
Control-Alt-Detele keys to the dashboard.
__ * John Slosar of auto-parts-maker Visteon,
which will target its in-car PC for fleet sales this year, not for consumers (Thanks
from The Industry Standard at www.thestandard.com
This won't blow Microsoft Office off the desktop, but there
is room for alternative [productivity suites] in some places.
__ * Tracy Corbo, an analyst at Hurwitz Group,
in Framingham, Mass., speaking about StarOffice. (Which is now open sourced. Thanks
InfoWorld for the quote.)
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong.
The amount of work is the same.
__ * Carlos Castaneda
