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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South Park & Me

Keeping with our South Park Theme while answering the calls for more pics of me…. here is what I would looked like when I visited South Park, CO. in back in 2001.

Scott in South Park:

I’d like to go back, but my current conch shell necklace is much harder to recreate in photoshop…

Riddle Of The Day/Week/Month/Year

What is greater than God, More evil than the devil, The poor have it, The rich need it, And if you eat it, you’ll die?

Got a better riddle? Email it to us. We might just post it…. and then you would be famous. ;)