Ignorance is not bliss.
-- unknown source ["Ignorance is bliss" is a quote from Thomas Gray, 1747]It ticks once a year, bongs once a century, and the cuckoo comes out every millennium.
-- Daniel Hillis [from 01993; Long Now Foundation]If it weren't for C, we'd be writing programs in BASI, PASAL, OBOL, and ++.
-- unknown source [In addition, we would also have sript languages such as JavaSript and VBsript.]Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen [radio comedian; more Fred Allen quotes]I'm not just going to sit back and be a quiet engineer.
I have a two-year-old son and I don't want him to grow up in a world that is less free.
-- Bruce Parens [ OpenSources::The Open Source Definition ]Because you have a mother and a father :-)
-- Bjarne Stroustrup {Chapter 12: Multiple Inheritance, The Design and Evolution of C++} [computing]Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept,
you should think of Free as in Free speech, not as in free beer.
-- Richard Stallman [ The Free Software Definition]Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
-- Albert Einstein (01879-01955) {German-born theoretical physicist; more...} [peace]If a dog makes a dash for my trousers, I shoot him down before he can bite.
-- Sir Winston Churchill [October of 1930; quoted as stating that, if Hitler were to come to power in Germany, England's eventual response must be...]One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think
you know it, you have no certainty until you try.
-- Aristotle (00384BC-00322BC) {Greek philosopher; more...} [learning]A mickey is the smallest visible unit of cursor motion your mouse (hence the name) can produce on a computer screen.
-- Fred Baldwin [freelance writer]I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe, but at least I'm enjoying the ride.
-- John Perry Barlow [lyricist for the Grateful Dead; co-founder of EFF.org]Seven astronauts who died 1 February 2003 aboard the space shuttle Columbia gave their lives in service to science and to others, and will serve as an inspiration for generations to come.
-- AAAS [American Association for the Advancement of Science]When the person from the patent department comes around and asks if you have invented anything, just say you have invented a lot, but nothing that hasn't been invented before. Now just go away, and let me do my job.
-- Tim Berners-Lee [creator of the World Wide Web]A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
-- Charles Darwin [naturalist (1809-1882)]Stood alone on a mountain top starin' out at the Great Divide,
I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide...
-- Bob Seger [rock'n roller; Roll Me Away lyrics]QOTW::Fall, 2002
Author: G.D.Thurman
[gdt@deru.com]
Created: 20 January 2003
Last Modified: Saturday, 21-Jun-2003 06:00:18 MST