“Now, in ‘07, the task of the Australian Labor Party is to address and redress the growing inequality created not by neglect or drift or indifference, but by the deliberate infliction of a decade of the most ideologically driven regime in Australia’s history.” — Gough Whitlam, with Margaret, as the first recipients of the ALP’s national life […]
“If your presentation visuals taken in the aggregate (e.g., your “PowerPoint deck”) can be perfectly and completely understood without your narration, then it begs the question: why are you there?” — Garr Reynolds, Is it finally time to ditch PowerPoint?
linux.conf.au 2007 opening ceremony
This is why I rarely publish my presentation slides: They’re always written with the assumption that I […]
“Love is an ugly, terrible business, practiced by fools.” — Gabe, from Little Manhattan
“Implement a Gtk# widget that brings the Office-like ribbons to Gtk#. Focus is on managed widgets, not in C-based widgets.” — Miguel de Icaza, Mono Summer of Code ideas (emphasis mine).
Go team.
It’s also pretty sad that they’re pursuing data binding at the Gtk# level, rather than helping deliver it to all users of GTK+. Let’s strengthen […]
“[The covenant not to sue] was one of the business things [Microsoft] wanted out of it, and, in defense of them, it was really probably secondary or tertiary in the discussions and it took a little bit of time for that to come out in those discussions.” — Ron Hovsepian, speaking with eWeek in Novell CEO Has […]
“So, waiting for Project Ridley to come to the rescue is not going to cut it anymore: if you are proposing to move some functionality from a library to GLib or GTK+ be prepared to work on the whole code and not only on your pet feature.” — Emmanuele Bassi, Of Angels and Angles on improving the […]
February 16, 2007 – 19:52
“I think Apple taught us what percentage of people choose rhetoric over working sound.” — Dave Camp on “Just Works”
Dave Camp, Super Geniusby Peter Teichman
February 14, 2007 – 14:12
“Guy wouldn’t know majesty if it came up and bit him in the face.” — Strongbad, Trogdor the Burninator
An oldie but a goodie, but then, there are way too many quoteables in this toon.
“I was ready to walk out, because it sounded like the stupidest thing ever.” — Jeff Waugh on Ubuntu’s origins
It feels utterly silly to be citing myself in QoTD, but this hilariously out of context quote on the cover of Linux Format 87 couldn’t go without mention.
Read the complete interview, including bits not found in the magazine, to see […]
“So, it’s important for us to acknowledge that we’re prone to be conservative, and in turn surround ourselves with individuals who will help break down our conservatism.” — Shigeru Miyamoto, on designing the Wii controllers
