“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.”
H.L. Mencken
Category Archives: Quotes
Quote of the Day
“If you’re the most intelligent person in the room, you’re in the wrong room”
James Watson
Luckily, I spend a lot of my time in the right rooms.
Quote of the Day
“We all know what needs to be done. We just don’t know how to be re-elected when we’ve done it”.
Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister of Luxembourg and president of the Euro group of prime ministers, quoted in the Economist, Nov 17, 2012.
Quote of the Day
“It takes about the same amount of computing to answer one Google Search query as all the
computing done — in flight and on the ground — for the entire Apollo program.”
Comment attributed to Peter Norvig and Udi Mepher of Google on hearing of the death of Neil Armstrong.
From Seb Schmoller’s fascinating reflections on his time at ALT-C.
Quote of the Day
“I’ll believe corporations are
peoplepersons when Texas executes one”.
Protest placard quoted by Larry Lessig in his Graduation Address to John Marshall Law School.
Quote of the day
“Google has great customer service. Problem is, you’re not the customer.”
Quote of the day
“Computing has changed from being something you go to a computer to do to something that the computer comes with you to do. It’s a subtle change, but world-altering for PC makers.”
Astute observation by Charles Arthur in today’s Observer.
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“Warren Buffett doesn’t have any more Google than I have, or the unemployed person has.”
Andrew McAfee of MIT in an interview.
Quote of the Day
“Those are my principles. If you don’t like them,… well, I’ve got others.”
Groucho Marx
Funny that this quote should the one that came to mind when I was thinking about David Cameron.
Quote of the Day
“Don’t sleep with a drip. Phone a plumber.”
Seen on the back of a white van while sitting at traffic lights.