Category Archives: Quote of the Day

QoTD: Brendan Nelson

Every mother loves her baby, every baby is valued and Mr Rudd should value all babies equally. We should not live in Australia where Mr Rudd thinks that some babies are more valuable than others. It’s very, very important that Mr Rudd understand that every mother loves her baby and this should be an Australia […]

QoTD: Bill Clinton

“Now one of Clinton’s laws of politics is this: If one candidate’s trying to scare you and the other one’s trying to get you to think, if one candidate’s appealing to your fears and the other one’s appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope.” — Bill Clinton, […]

QoTD: Justice Kirby

“We are moving to a point in the world where more and more law will be expressed in its effective way, not in terms of statutes solidly enacted by the parliament … but in the technology itself: code.” — Australian High Court Judge, Justice Kirby, Tech makes lawmakers impotent, says Judge
Great to hear this understood and so clearly […]

QoTD: Bill Hilf

“When people buy commercial software, really what they’re buying is a guarantee. You’re buying a guarantee that what you have will perform, and has been tested and there’s someone you can call up, and if things go really bad someone’s liable if something doesn’t work.” — Microsoft’s Bill Hilf Reveals Its Open Source Strategy
Of course, when Hilf says […]

QoTD: Gough Whitlam

“Only the impotent are pure.” — Gough Whitlam

QoTD: Steve Ballmer

“People who use Red Hat, at least with respect to our intellectual property, in a sense have an obligation to compensate us.” — Microsoft aims patent guns at Red Hat
Thanks again, Novell!

QoTD: Jeff Hodges

“Fail hard. Fail with motherfucking gusto. Succeeding, like flying, is throwing yourself to the ground and missing.” — Jeff Hodges, offering advice on how to get people to hack on your project

QoTD: Len Brown

“Apparently a market for more config options is alive and well. Thank you for helping make the future of Linux more clear to me.” — Len Brown, on the tastefulness of Linux config options

QoTD: Paul Nowak

“Software will increasingly compete on ease of use in the total software experience more than on features. The future will be more about being simple than about any other dimension. […] This is a classic case of experience changing perception and it’s got me to thinking about a seamless platform from server to desktop to […]

QoTD: Alberto Ruiz

Jeff Waugh: “AI will surpass human intelligence after 2020.”
Alberto Ruiz: That’s the linux desktop year also!
Jeff Waugh: Ha ha ha… Of course, now that you work for sun, that’s not funny!
Alberto Ruiz: Ha ha ha ha ha ha. I think Sun prefers a Linux desktop world than a Microsoft one.

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