Favorite quote of all time
Sorry this is so long. Just stumbled onto it and found it humorous and on-topic. :-)
"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
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a
means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."
--Western Union internal memo, 1876.
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay
for a message sent to nobody in particular?" --David Sarnoff's associates
in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better
than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." --A Yale University management
professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight
delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" --H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers,
1927.
"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary
Cooper." --Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in
"Gone With The Wind."
"A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say
America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make."
--Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." --Decca
Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." --Lord Kelvin,
president, Royal Society, 1895.
"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The
literature was full of examples that said you can't do this." --Spencer
Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It"
Notepads.
"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, we even
built it with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us?
Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come
work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and
they said, 'We don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'"
--Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and HP
interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.
"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction
and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react.
He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
--1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary
rocket work.
"You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of
your muscles? It can't be done. It's just a fact of life. You just have to
accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable condition of
weight training." --Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the "unsolvable"
problem by inventing Nautilus.
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're
crazy." --Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to
drill for oil in 1859.
"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." --Irving
Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." --Marechal
Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." --Charles H. Duell,
Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction". --Pierre Pachet,
Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the
intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon". --Sir John Eric Ericksen,
British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981
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"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
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a
means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."
--Western Union internal memo, 1876.
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay
for a message sent to nobody in particular?" --David Sarnoff's associates
in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better
than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." --A Yale University management
professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight
delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" --H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers,
1927.
"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary
Cooper." --Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in
"Gone With The Wind."
"A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say
America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make."
--Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." --Decca
Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." --Lord Kelvin,
president, Royal Society, 1895.
"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The
literature was full of examples that said you can't do this." --Spencer
Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It"
Notepads.
"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, we even
built it with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us?
Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come
work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and
they said, 'We don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'"
--Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and HP
interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.
"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction
and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react.
He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
--1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary
rocket work.
"You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of
your muscles? It can't be done. It's just a fact of life. You just have to
accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable condition of
weight training." --Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the "unsolvable"
problem by inventing Nautilus.
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're
crazy." --Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to
drill for oil in 1859.
"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." --Irving
Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." --Marechal
Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." --Charles H. Duell,
Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction". --Pierre Pachet,
Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the
intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon". --Sir John Eric Ericksen,
British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981
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In the immortal words of Socrates... "I drank What?!" Val Kilmer- Real Genius
" My daughter's home by 11pm, if not, I have a shovel and 5 acres of land." Anonymous friend's quote on what his plans were when his daughter came of dating age.
" I say again, expend all remaining ordinance on my pause... It's a lovely f**king war." Company Commander- Platoon
" My daughter's home by 11pm, if not, I have a shovel and 5 acres of land." Anonymous friend's quote on what his plans were when his daughter came of dating age.
" I say again, expend all remaining ordinance on my pause... It's a lovely f**king war." Company Commander- Platoon
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Kallinar:
<B>Never make an assumption. You will be making an ass out of 'u' and 'mption'.
Kallinar
Moo</B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
thought that was asume .. you will make an
(ass) out of (u) and (me)
-Ambar -=- Knows too little for her own good -=-
<B>Never make an assumption. You will be making an ass out of 'u' and 'mption'.
Kallinar
Moo</B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
thought that was asume .. you will make an
(ass) out of (u) and (me)
-Ambar -=- Knows too little for her own good -=-
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To all of those who know anything about Harry Potter..I read this in a fan fiction story. (Yes, I am lame )
"I have a hotel on Ottery St. Catchpole..so you owe me....6 knuts...Damn poor ass Weasley's."
My favorite quote of all time though comes from the D&D guide to Drow. (Yes, I am a nerd too )
"Nindyn vel'uss kyorl nind ratha thalra elghinn dal lil alust"
(Those who watch their backs meet death from the front)
Jennie or as Targsk calls me "The Pimpmaster"
"I have a hotel on Ottery St. Catchpole..so you owe me....6 knuts...Damn poor ass Weasley's."
My favorite quote of all time though comes from the D&D guide to Drow. (Yes, I am a nerd too )
"Nindyn vel'uss kyorl nind ratha thalra elghinn dal lil alust"
(Those who watch their backs meet death from the front)
Jennie or as Targsk calls me "The Pimpmaster"
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Karikhan:
<B>
thought that was asume .. you will make an
(ass) out of (u) and (me)
-Ambar -=- Knows too little for her own good -=-</B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
No.. he was quoting Samuel L Jackson.
<B>
thought that was asume .. you will make an
(ass) out of (u) and (me)
-Ambar -=- Knows too little for her own good -=-</B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
No.. he was quoting Samuel L Jackson.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by ssar:
<B>"Time is a precious thing; it prevents everything happening all at once."
"Anger is an energy."
"Elvis was a hero to most but he never meant shit to me - Straight up racist that sucker was simple and plain, motherf**k him and John Wayne."</B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Gotta love people who can quote Public Enemy:>)
My non favorite PE quote is:
"the first one to resort to violence in an arguement is the first one to stop thinking."
or something along those lines
also from my friend who mixes her medifors:
"your not exactly the sharpest bulb on the christmas tree"
<B>"Time is a precious thing; it prevents everything happening all at once."
"Anger is an energy."
"Elvis was a hero to most but he never meant shit to me - Straight up racist that sucker was simple and plain, motherf**k him and John Wayne."</B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Gotta love people who can quote Public Enemy:>)
My non favorite PE quote is:
"the first one to resort to violence in an arguement is the first one to stop thinking."
or something along those lines
also from my friend who mixes her medifors:
"your not exactly the sharpest bulb on the christmas tree"
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Kallinar:
<B>Never make an assumption. You will be making an ass out of 'u' and 'mption'.
</B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Oh yeah..
One similar I remember from a Steven Segal movie..
"Assumption is the mother of all fu**ups".
Mogr.
<B>Never make an assumption. You will be making an ass out of 'u' and 'mption'.
</B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Oh yeah..
One similar I remember from a Steven Segal movie..
"Assumption is the mother of all fu**ups".
Mogr.
Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love. ~Butch Hancock
I'm not saying it's safe for humans. I'm not saying it's unsafe for humans. All I'm saying is that it makes hermaphrodites of frogs. ~Dr. Tyrone Hayes
No. ~President Jimmy Carter's daughter Amy, when asked if she had any message for the children of America
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. ~W. Somerset Maugham
We begin life with the world presenting itself to us as it is. Someone - our parents, teachers, analysts - hypnotizes us to "see" the world and construe it in the "right" way. These others label the world, attach names and give voices to the beings and events in it, so that thereafter, we cannot read the world in any other language or hear it saying other things to us. The task is to break the hypnotic spell, so that we become undeaf, unblind and multilingual, thereby letting the world speak to us in new voices and write all its possible meanings in the new book of our existence. Be careful in your choice of hypnotists. ~Sidney Jourard
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-Todrael Azz'miala, Ravager
I'm not saying it's safe for humans. I'm not saying it's unsafe for humans. All I'm saying is that it makes hermaphrodites of frogs. ~Dr. Tyrone Hayes
No. ~President Jimmy Carter's daughter Amy, when asked if she had any message for the children of America
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. ~W. Somerset Maugham
We begin life with the world presenting itself to us as it is. Someone - our parents, teachers, analysts - hypnotizes us to "see" the world and construe it in the "right" way. These others label the world, attach names and give voices to the beings and events in it, so that thereafter, we cannot read the world in any other language or hear it saying other things to us. The task is to break the hypnotic spell, so that we become undeaf, unblind and multilingual, thereby letting the world speak to us in new voices and write all its possible meanings in the new book of our existence. Be careful in your choice of hypnotists. ~Sidney Jourard
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-Todrael Azz'miala, Ravager
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Saw this quote on the site of one of my favorite bands, Lacuna Coil..
"Everyone on earth is useful. It's a sin to consider someone, or something, useless."
I thought it was beautiful and with all the flaming, insults, and bad feelings always floating around, i thought it fitting as well.
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Jennie
@}--`--,---
"Everyone on earth is useful. It's a sin to consider someone, or something, useless."
I thought it was beautiful and with all the flaming, insults, and bad feelings always floating around, i thought it fitting as well.
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Jennie
@}--`--,---
Helen Keller has to be my all time favorite..this one tops..
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
And these are hers also..Makes you wonder..Did Helen mud?
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
The best way out is always through.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
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Wuva *Wildchild* EagleBlade
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
And these are hers also..Makes you wonder..Did Helen mud?
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
The best way out is always through.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
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Wuva *Wildchild* EagleBlade
PH34R MY N33D F0R B33R
it is a friday and I just had to dig up this old post as opposed to starting a new one....
On a somewhat related topic, has anyone tried the new Vanilla Coke..mmm...I imagine it would go well with many many forms of alcohol as Coke is a pretty good universal mixer
P.S. Largo R0XX0R5!
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Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
it is a friday and I just had to dig up this old post as opposed to starting a new one....
On a somewhat related topic, has anyone tried the new Vanilla Coke..mmm...I imagine it would go well with many many forms of alcohol as Coke is a pretty good universal mixer
P.S. Largo R0XX0R5!
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Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Karikhan:
<B>
thought that was asume .. you will make an
(ass) out of (u) and (me)
-Ambar -=- Knows too little for her own good -=-</B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I always liked you will make and "ass" out of "u" before "me" :P
<B>
thought that was asume .. you will make an
(ass) out of (u) and (me)
-Ambar -=- Knows too little for her own good -=-</B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I always liked you will make and "ass" out of "u" before "me" :P
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"The earth is degenerating these days. Bribery and corruption
abound. Children no longer mind their parents, every man
wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the
world is fast approaching." - Assyrian Tablet, c.2800BC
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"The earth is degenerating these days. Bribery and corruption
abound. Children no longer mind their parents, every man
wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the
world is fast approaching." - Assyrian Tablet, c.2800BC
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"G'Quan wrote, 'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul... that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities; it is against chaos, and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.'
The future is all around us... waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us; we know only that it is always born... in pain."
-- ambassador g'kar, "babylon 5"
"The truth points to itself."
-- kosh, "babylon 5"
"It's easy to find something worth dying for... do you have anything worth living for?"
-- lorien, "babylon 5"
"I know you. You're a protector. You'll never admit it, but you're a protector. Most of the protectors I know got that way because the world was so cruel to them and they couldn't do anything about it. So, they work it out by trying to make things easier for everybody else... but they deny it, because saying it means admitting they need to touch other people and because they've been disappointed so many times they've learned to live without. They've learned to give... but they've never learned how to receive. How to ask for compassion, or something as simple as a hug."
-- constance, "jeremiah"
"Do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man."
-- don vito corleone, "the godfather"
"How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life, wouldn't you say?"
-- admiral james kirk, "star trek ii"
[This message has been edited by Alaindril (edited 06-19-2002).]
The future is all around us... waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us; we know only that it is always born... in pain."
-- ambassador g'kar, "babylon 5"
"The truth points to itself."
-- kosh, "babylon 5"
"It's easy to find something worth dying for... do you have anything worth living for?"
-- lorien, "babylon 5"
"I know you. You're a protector. You'll never admit it, but you're a protector. Most of the protectors I know got that way because the world was so cruel to them and they couldn't do anything about it. So, they work it out by trying to make things easier for everybody else... but they deny it, because saying it means admitting they need to touch other people and because they've been disappointed so many times they've learned to live without. They've learned to give... but they've never learned how to receive. How to ask for compassion, or something as simple as a hug."
-- constance, "jeremiah"
"Do you spend time with your family? Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man."
-- don vito corleone, "the godfather"
"How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life, wouldn't you say?"
-- admiral james kirk, "star trek ii"
[This message has been edited by Alaindril (edited 06-19-2002).]
Excellent quotes Alaindril, I love Babylon 5, has some of the coolest bits.
I loved the one from DeLynn when they came to the rescue of Sheridan and the station against the Earthforces loyal to Clark.
"In the history of Earth Midbari relations, only one person has ever beaten us in a battle, he is behind me, you are in front of me. If you wish to live, leave now."
At which point, they did a 180, and got the hell out of Dodge.
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I loved the one from DeLynn when they came to the rescue of Sheridan and the station against the Earthforces loyal to Clark.
"In the history of Earth Midbari relations, only one person has ever beaten us in a battle, he is behind me, you are in front of me. If you wish to live, leave now."
At which point, they did a 180, and got the hell out of Dodge.
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Had a friend send this to me:
In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America. His Answer:
"I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the metting"
In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America. His Answer:
"I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the metting"
"The Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it."
- Sidney Littlewood
So true.
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Runecopple group-says 'ok, got a rogue'
You group-say 'Bah'
You group-say 'Is that all I am to you people!?'
Runecopple group-says 'nod, yer like the milk of Soj. Got rogue?
- Sidney Littlewood
So true.
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Runecopple group-says 'ok, got a rogue'
You group-say 'Bah'
You group-say 'Is that all I am to you people!?'
Runecopple group-says 'nod, yer like the milk of Soj. Got rogue?
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