brainstorms

Thursday June 16, 2005

recent good quotes

There are few things more exhilarating than the authoritative endorsement of human ignorance. It resolves an imaginative tension from which we all suffer. We feel that the world is indecipherable, unknowable; yet, at the same time, we fear this may reflect nothing more than our own failing. There may be others - shrewder, wiser, better read - to whom it all makes perfect sense. -- bryan appleyard

Of course, the truth is that Windows Indexing Service is to Spotlight as Thomas the Tank Engine is to a bullet train. -- david pogue

Incantations... oops, I mean "ideas"... tend to whither when practical people are free to raise their hands and say "yes... but..." -- david brin

it is easy to feel frightened at the beginning of the twenty-first century. and among the most frightening things are the minds of other people. -- simon blackburn [truth - a guide]

Kodak shot themselves in the foot handling this product's introduction. They then proceeded to get a sledgehammer and hit themselves in the same foot. When they stopped screaming, they tried to kick in a metal door with that foot. -- thom hogan on kodak dcs pro 14n

painful though it is, the best way to think and write is to do nothing else. -- john kenneth galbraith [a life in our times: memoirs]

Solaris doesn't stand a chance against *BSD or Linux... their logo sucks! Come on... seriously... what's more cuter than a Penguin or a Daemon? -- jhfry@slashdot