Category Archives: Quote of the Day

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 … Continue reading

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QoTD: Gough Whitlam

“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 … Continue reading

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QoTD: Garr Reynolds

“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? … Continue reading

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QoTD: Little Manhattan

“Love is an ugly, terrible business, practiced by fools.” — Gabe, from Little Manhattan

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QoTD: Miguel de Icaza

“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 … Continue reading

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QoTD: Ron Hovsepian

“[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 … Continue reading

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QoTD: Emmanuele Bassi

“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 … Continue reading

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QoTD: Dave Camp

“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

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QoTD: Strongbad

“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.

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QoTD: Jeff Waugh

“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 … Continue reading

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