“Only the impotent are pure.” — Gough Whitlam
Category Archives: Quote of the Day
QoTD: Steve Ballmer
October 9, 2007 – 14:13
“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
August 7, 2007 – 11:38
“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
August 2, 2007 – 13:29
“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
July 12, 2007 – 10:25
“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
May 7, 2007 – 12:58
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.
Coolest thing […]
QoTD: Gough Whitlam
April 29, 2007 – 13:12
“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 […]
QoTD: Garr Reynolds
April 10, 2007 – 19:24
“If your presentation visuals taken in the aggregate (e.g., your “PowerPoint deckâ€) 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 […]
QoTD: Little Manhattan
March 28, 2007 – 11:31
“Love is an ugly, terrible business, practiced by fools.” — Gabe, from Little Manhattan
QoTD: Miguel de Icaza
March 27, 2007 – 08:11
“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 […]
