More Quotes

More quotes… keep ’em coming.

“Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.”

“Those who live by the sword… get shot by those who don’t”

“We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Forgive your enemies… but never forget their names”

“Learn from the mistakes of others; You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”

“The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” – Mark Twain

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used to create them.”

“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.” – Margaret Thatcher

“Today’s mighty oak is just yesterdays nut, that held its ground”

“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.” – Pablo Picasso

The Snooze Button

Dean Bladwin has been snaping digital pics of himself waking up for 3 years now. He rigged a digi cam up to his snooze button to “point out the subtle difference in the sameness of our daily routines; the tired eyes may look similiar, but the beard is scruffier and his sheets have been changed… part of a broader practice in which he obessively documents life’s habitually recurring and more mundane moments.”

The flash interface is pretty cool and the background tracks are worth the visit alone. From what I can gather it’s Circle Research playing Psy’d Tracked Feat. Psy of the Oddities and others…

Notable Quotes

Starting off, yet another section: here are a few quotes worth for reading or adding to your email signature… If you have a great quote or four send them too us and we’ll be happy to consider posting them.

“There won’t be anything we won’t say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go.” –Bill Gates

“Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you reallyare is that you very often succeed.” – C.S. Lewis The Magician?s Nephew

“Having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting.” – Spock

“Wealth and retirement are wasted on the elderly.” – S. Kuban

“A good rule of thumb is if you’ve made it to thirty-five and your job still requires you to wear a name tag, you’ve made a serious vocational error.” – Dennis Miller

“If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.” – J. Paul Getty

“A bargin is something you can’t use at a price you can’t resist.” – Franklin Jones

MS vs Linux

Well after several years of losing server market share to Linux, Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft finally mentioned the open source “problem” in his annual strategy memo to employees.

“While the noncommercial model may lead to many flavors of software, getting broad, consistent innovation requires coordination across many technology components. In the event of needed enhancements or fixes, the Linux development community, no matter how well intentioned, simply cannot advance Linux the way we can – and must – innovate in Windows.” — Steve Ballmer I’m sorry: ” broad, consistent innovation “…. I think Mr. Ballmer has forgotten the definition of innovate(tion):innovate
\In”no*vate\
1. To begin or introduce (something new) for or as if for the first time.
2. To change or alter by introducing something new; to remodel; to revolutionize.

There is NO such thing as CONSISTENT INNOVATION. You can’t create something out of nothing on a schedule… you can’t revolutionize every tuesday…

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