Quotes

Corinthians

Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.

Abe Tanha – My Younger Brother

So, He brings a gun to school in the 80′s, and gets detention on a Saturday?”

(said while watching “The Breakfast Club”)

A little Star Wars always makes me sleepy.

Abe Tanha is back in the saddle, and by saddle I mean easy chair, and by easy chair I mean bed, and by bed I mean your mom.

Reza Tanha

No one goes to work because their doctor says it’s good for their health

William Makepeace Thackeray

Mother is the name of God on the lips and hearts of all children.

Steve Jobs

1.) The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste; they have absolutely no taste. And what that means is – I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way – in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their products. And so I guess I am saddened, not by Microsoft’s success; I have no problem with their success, they’ve earned their success, in the most part; I have a problem with the fact they make really third rate products.

2.) “Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.”

3.) “It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”

4.) “It’s better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.”

5.) “I’m the only person I know that’s lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year…. It’s very character-building.”

6.) “From what I’ve heard, Babe Ruth had only one home run. He just kept hitting it over and over again”

7.) “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.” On the success of Bill Gates and Microsoft, as quoted in The Wall Street Journal (Summer 1993)

8.) Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple. On Microsoft, at the Worldwide Developer’s Conference (August 2006)

9.) It’s like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell! On how Apple is the largest developer for Microsoft Windows due to the popularity of its iTunes software, at the All Things Digital Conference 5 (30 May 2007), on stage with Bill Gates, Kara Swisher and Walter Mossberg. – (online video)

10.) Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

11.) Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary

12.) For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would i want to do what i am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something… almost everything – all external expectations,all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to loose.

Loki

Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer.

Douglas Adams

1.) “The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%.”

2.) “The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place.”

Al Gore

In a speech delivered at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama, President Bush addressed the American Initiative. During his address, the President said:

“The government funded research in microdrive storage, electrochemistry and signal compression. They did so for one reason: It turned out that those were the key ingredients for the development of the iPod. I tune into the iPod occasionally, you know…”

The President was joking, of course. When asked if he thought the joke was funny, Apple Board of Directors member Al Gore said, “No.”

Ernest Hemingway

1.) The first draft of anything is shit.

2.) Best of all he loved the fall
The leaves yellow on the cottonwoods
Leaves floating on the trout streams
And above the hills
The high blue windless sky
Now he will be a part of them forever.

Upholding The Constitution

On Wednesday, March 1st, 2006, in Annapolis at a hearing on the proposed Constitutional Amendment to prohibit gay marriage, Jamie Raskin, professor of law at AU, was requested to testify.

At the end of his testimony, Republican Senator Nancy Jacobs said: “Mr. Raskin, my Bible says marriage is only between a man and a woman. What do you have to say about that?”

Raskin replied: “Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You did not place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.”

Kurt Cobain

Zits are beauty marks.

Edgar Allan Poe

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Dr. Seuss

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt

“Apple is engaged in probably the most remarkable second act ever seen in technology,” he added. “Its resurgence is simply phenomenal and extremely impressive.”

Tomonobu Itagaki is a Japanese video game designer who heads Team Ninja, one of Tecmo’s development teams. He is widely known for his work on the Dead or Alive series of video games

The only good thing about Tekken is the title – It’s short.

Mark Twain

1.) We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

2.) It is best to keep your mouth shut and be presumed ignorant than to open it and remove all doubt.

3.) Don’t let school interfere with your education.

4.) Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Oscar Wilde

1.) Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.

2.) Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

3.) Journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.

4.) To define is to limit.

5.) Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Napoleon

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Thomas Jefferson

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have … The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

Lex Luthor

Just look at him. So sleek. So powerful. So… beautiful, like some great golden god made flesh. Of course, any sensible god would demand absolute obedience in return for his favor. But, no, our Man of Steel protects us, with no strings attached. The people? Hmph. They practically worship him anyway. Enjoy your reign while you may, Superman. For surely as night follows day, there comes a time when even gods must die.

John Milton, Paradise Lost

Abashed the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.

Bruce Campbell

If you have it, You don’t need it.
If you need it, you don’t have it.
If you have it, You need more of it.
If you have more of it, you don’t need less of it.
You need it, to get it.
And you certainly need it to get more of it.
But if you don’t already have any of it to begin with, you can’t get any of it to get started.
Which means you really don’t have any idea how to get it in the first place. do you?
You can share it, sure.
You can even stock pile it if you like.
But you can’t fake it.
Wanting it, Needing it, wishing for it.
The point is, if you never had any of it ever, people just seem to know.

Christan Jeurgen Rushmann

When it gets to the point where I need to be concerned i’ll start killing people.

Lee Lacocca

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Mignon McLaughlin

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

Pablo Picasso

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal

Robert Frost

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Evan Esar

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Rob Gordon

What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?

From The Book Shantaram

“Nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.”

Will Smith:

The Keys to Life are Runnin’ & Readin.

Key to Life #1 – Running:

When you’re running and that voice in your head that starts saying to you, “slow down, your ankles are hurting” tries to get you to stop, that’s when you keep on running and breakthrough.

When you learn to defeat that person inside that tries to get you to stop, you can defeat anything that stands in front of you. Anything that’s blocking your way toward your true purpose, destination and goal.

Key to Life #2 – Reading

Millions and billions of people that have lived before us have solved the same problems that you’re experiencing today. And they wrote down what they learned and discovered in books.

Those books are available to all of us, to tap into and gain that accelerated knowledge and use it to our advantage.

Any problem we may face – can be found in a book somewhere along with the solution to that problem.

Thomas Szasz

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; If you talk to the dead, you are a schizophrenic.

bithajcsar

This quote was found on the first post on the Zenoss forum. It was written by user ‘bithajcsar’.

open source in general, is only for those who do not have any serious responsibility.

John Wayne

“Talk low, talk slow, and don’t talk too much”

“Courage is being scared to death — but saddling up anyway.”

Herbert Simon

Recipient of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics and the A.M. Turing Award, The “Nobel Prize of Computer Science”

“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”

Robert J. Sawyer

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”

SENECA

“There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.”

Dave Berry

Pulitzer Prize – winning American humorist

“Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.”

David Allen

“Your mind is for having ideas, not for holding them.”

MacDailyNews

Regarding Steve Ballmer’s 2010 CES keynote presentation.

“The amount of nothingness they have to show for all their billions of dollars and 93,000 employees astounds even us. Microsoft is a company bereft of interesting ideas coasting on past intellectual property thefts and the benefits of largely-unpunished monopoly abuse that’s headed by a clueless buffoon who once got a very fortunate dorm assignment.”

Skelliewag

Found on their website

One thing at a time.

Most important thing first.

Start now.

Rich Young

Drop the balls don’t Drop the eggs

If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull shit.

Leigh Robinson

They will get over it, I already have.

Gene Roddenberry

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

Chapman Cohen

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

Albert Einstein

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

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