Sunday, April 10, 2005
One test is worth a thousand opinions....
(NASA - Axiom)
(NASA - Axiom)
Saturday, April 09, 2005
Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product.
- Joe Keenan, President of Atari, in 1976 responding to Steve Jobs' offer to sell him rights to the new personal computer he and Steve Wozniak developed
How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
- Al Gore on Y2K
Windows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.
-President WM. CLINTON, during announcement of Next Generation Internet initiative, 1996.
Funny thing about Macintosh cult members is that they even name their pets (God forbid children) - "iDog", "Macintosh", "Tiger", "iCat", and O'yes "OS X".
Kent Forrest
Great kid names for Macintosh cult families: "iBaby", "iKid", "OS X", "Unix", "iPod", "dot Mac (for a girl), "iMac" (eMac for a girl?), "Midi", "QT", "mov", "Lisa", "XServe", "Pages", "Keynote", "App", "iSync", "Newton (Nostalgia), "iShuffle", (you get the drift...
-Kent Forrest
- Joe Keenan, President of Atari, in 1976 responding to Steve Jobs' offer to sell him rights to the new personal computer he and Steve Wozniak developed
How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?
- Al Gore on Y2K
Windows is just DOS in drag.
- Anonymous
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.
-President WM. CLINTON, during announcement of Next Generation Internet initiative, 1996.
Funny thing about Macintosh cult members is that they even name their pets (God forbid children) - "iDog", "Macintosh", "Tiger", "iCat", and O'yes "OS X".
Kent Forrest
Great kid names for Macintosh cult families: "iBaby", "iKid", "OS X", "Unix", "iPod", "dot Mac (for a girl), "iMac" (eMac for a girl?), "Midi", "QT", "mov", "Lisa", "XServe", "Pages", "Keynote", "App", "iSync", "Newton (Nostalgia), "iShuffle", (you get the drift...
-Kent Forrest
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
~B.F. Skinner, Contingencies of Reinforcement, 1969
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
-- Clive James
"The next generation of interesting software will be done on Macintosh, not the IBM PC."
-Bill Gates, talking to Business Week, 1984
Windows 3.1 is like the Mac in the same way that a transvestite is like a real woman. It's 95% the same and actually what some people would prefer, but not really the same for those who care about small differences."
-John Dvorak, columnist, PC Magazine, 1992
"Saying that Windows 95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the Second Coming."
-Guy Kawasaki, Apple Fellow, 1995
"I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray."
Seymour Cray, 1986, when told Apple had bought a Cray supercomputer to help it design the next Mac. Cray designed his first supercomputers using paper and pencil
"Chips double in capacity, in relation to price, every 18 months."
Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder, 1965
"But what is it good for?"
Anonymous engineer at IBM's advanced computing systems division commenting on the microchip, 1968
"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."
Robert Wilensky, computer science division, University of California Digital Library Project, 1996
"We were profitable for about an hour in December 1995, but it was probably a mistake."
Amazon.com chief executive Jeff Bezos on whether his company makes money, March 1999
~B.F. Skinner, Contingencies of Reinforcement, 1969
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
-- Clive James
"The next generation of interesting software will be done on Macintosh, not the IBM PC."
-Bill Gates, talking to Business Week, 1984
Windows 3.1 is like the Mac in the same way that a transvestite is like a real woman. It's 95% the same and actually what some people would prefer, but not really the same for those who care about small differences."
-John Dvorak, columnist, PC Magazine, 1992
"Saying that Windows 95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the Second Coming."
-Guy Kawasaki, Apple Fellow, 1995
"I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray."
Seymour Cray, 1986, when told Apple had bought a Cray supercomputer to help it design the next Mac. Cray designed his first supercomputers using paper and pencil
"Chips double in capacity, in relation to price, every 18 months."
Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder, 1965
"But what is it good for?"
Anonymous engineer at IBM's advanced computing systems division commenting on the microchip, 1968
"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."
Robert Wilensky, computer science division, University of California Digital Library Project, 1996
"We were profitable for about an hour in December 1995, but it was probably a mistake."
Amazon.com chief executive Jeff Bezos on whether his company makes money, March 1999
