Showing posts with label quotation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotation. Show all posts

Sunday, December 25, 2011

"Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
(c) T.S.Eliot, "The Rock", 1934
"Cross even a stone bridge only after you have tested it."
(c) Korean proverb
"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
(c) Mark Twain
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention."
(c) Sir Francis Bacon, 1621
"Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long felt want."
(c) Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, on examining a gramophone player

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Quickly, cheaply, qualitatively...

Quickly, cheaply, qualitatively — choose any two.

Thursday, December 10, 2009


...when Microsoft enters a market in a serious way

"Usually, when Microsoft enters a market in a serious way, this is a sign that the market is mature and ready to be exploited."

(c) "Exploiting Software - How to Break Code" By Greg Hoglund, Gary McGraw


Give a man a crack...

"Give a man a crack, and he'll be hungry again tomorrow, teach him how to crack, and he'll never be hungry again."

(c) +ORC ( the great )