"Five years from now the government will measure open source projects starts the way it now measures housing starts." — Bill Weinberg, MontaVista
"In any business model you need someone to sue. That's the American Way." — Bill Weinberg, MontaVista
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." — Erica Jong
"The condition of the free man is that he does not live for the benefit of another." — Aristotle
"They rely on customers to find uses for minicomputers, rather that burdening the company with huge costs of developing and marketing applications of its own. Digital salesmen, engineers selling to other engineers, nurture strong and lasting relationships with customers... it's surprising how little they've caused their own growth. For years, they've been dragged along by interesting applications their customers came up with." — on the subject of Digital Equipment Corporation, from In Search of Excellence, by Tom Peters and Bob Waterman, 1982.
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so" — Douglas Adams
Disease can be cured; fate is incurable. — Chinese proverb
"Prediction is especially difficult. Especially about the future." Niels Bohr
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
"Remember this about rocks: what they are made of is not what made them." — John McFee
"If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone." — John McFee
"I am the last bastard of free speech." -- Howard Stern
takeoffs, landings
"The average knowledge worker will outlive the average employing organization. This is the first time in history that this has happened." — Peter Drucker
"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining." — Jeff Raskin
"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word." — Andrew Jackson
"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite." — Bertrand Russell
"All models are wrong. Some models are useful."— George Box.