VERY TECHNOLOGICAL QUOTES

Favourite Technology Quotations

Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation) at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
- Andy Rooney

In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.
- Anonymous

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be.
- David Thornburg

Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
- Anonymous

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- Carl Sagan

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
- Anonymous

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison

Technology is like fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
- Andrew Heller, IBM

A scary poem

Here is a nice and scary poem I found. I hope you like it!

I Am The Night

I am the night.

I am darkness at it's bluest.

To me there is sheer delight in the shadow of the night

No need to insist, for the night I exist.

The light of day is not night's way.

I am the night.

I am a creature of the dark.

I have been groomed for gloom.

For eons of time, the night has been mine.

I can't remember when the night and me didn't function as twins.

Just as the ocean's floor holds mysteries, the night alone conceals my history.

I am the night

Just as poetry flows from ocean currents and from the slashing force of wind

springs forth designs,

Each drop of rain delivers music to our minds, poetry never ceases.

From my point of view, at night it increases.

I find beauty in each dancing shadow and exquisite delight in the secret of the night.

The spirit things clothed in the unknown,

Travel the same path that I consider home.

Things that move skillfully at night do so without sight.

I love these wonders for I am the night.

My five senses are more acute than most.

Of this superiority, I proudly boast.

My movements are as swift as lightening dashing across the sky.

They can't be held in focus by the human eye.

Question - Who am I?

I feed on a secret vein of life and rest in the protective cover of dusk in disguise.

My skin is cold to the touch, don't worry you won't touch me much.

My beginning is of no importance, but I see no end in sight.

I believe I am forever;

I am the night

I have been known by many titles and names.

For none of them do I feel shame, for I exist as all do.

Just as I am me, and you are you.

I am called Satan, Impaler, Death, Blood Drinker; just to name a few -

Pick one that suits you.

Some even call me a Ghost;

yet, vampire is what I am called the most

Whether these names are wrong or right, the fact remains -

I am the night.

©2002 Bernard Thompson

Prepositions = a nightmare?

There are 150 prepositions in English. Some of them are short, typically containing five letters or fewer. There are, however, a significant number of multi word prepositions. Throughout the evolution of the the English language, new prepositions have come into use, old ones fallen out of use, and the meaning of existing prepositions changed.

A preposition is a word governing, and usually coming in front of, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element.

Prepositions:
aboard
about
above
absent
according to
across
after
against
ahead of
along
alongside
amid
amidst
among
around
as
as far as
as well as
at
atop
before
behind
below
beneath
beside
between
by
by means of
despite
down
due to

during
except
far from
following
for
from
in
in addition to
in case of
in front of
in place of
in spite of
inside
inside of
instead of
in to (into)
like
mid
minus
near
near to
next
next to
notwithstanding
of
off
on
on account of
on behalf of
on top of
on to (onto)
opposite
out of
outside
outside of
owing to
over
past
plus
prior to
regarding
round
save
since
than
through
throughout
till
times
to
toward
under
underneath
until
up
upon
with
with regards to
within
without

Happy birthday Jennine!

You see! How could I forget?!
Happy birthday Jennine! I wish you the best, and good luck in the USA.
See you in March
Love you!
Andrea

I wish you enough

I WISH YOU ENOUGH
Recently, I overheard a mother and daughter in their last moments together at the airport as the daughter's departure had been announced. Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the mother said, "I love you and I wish you enough." The daughter replied, "Mom, our life together has been more than enough. Your love is all I ever needed. I wish you enough, too, Mom." They kissed and the daughter left.
The mother walked over to the window where I sat. Standing there, I could see she wanted and needed to cry.
I tried not to intrude on her privacy but she welcomed me in by asking, "Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be forever?" "Yes, I have," I replied. "Forgive me for asking but why is this a forever good-bye?" "I am old and she lives so far away. I have challenges ahead and the reality is the next trip back will be for my funeral," she said.
When you were saying good-bye, I heard you say, "I wish you enough." May I ask what that means?" She began to smile. "That's a wish that has been handed down from other generations. My parents used to say it to everyone." She paused a moment and looked up as if trying to remember it in detail and she smiled even more. "When we said 'I wish you enough' we were wanting the other person to have a life filled with just enough good things to sustain them". Then turning toward me, she shared the following, reciting it from memory,"I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright.I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive.I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger.I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye."She then began to cry and walked away.
They say it takes a minute to find a special person. An hour to appreciate them. A day to love them. And an entire life to forget them.
TAKE TIME TO LIVE!

wear sunscreen!

summer!

Today: good literature, a nice poem by John Keats (1795 - 1821). To find more stuff about him, go to http://www.john-keats.com/

Written on a Summer Evening

The church bells toll a melancholy round,

Calling the people to some other prayers,

Some other gloominess, more dreadful cares,

More harkening to the sermon's horrid sound.

Surely the mind of man is closely bound

In some blind spell: seeing that each one tears

Himself from fireside joys and Lydian airs,

And converse high of those with glory crowned.

Still, still they toll, and I should feel a damp,

A chill as from a tomb, did I not know

That they are dying like an outburnt lamp,

- That 'tis their sighing, wailing, ere they go

Into oblivion -that fresh flowers will grow,

And many glories of immortal stamp.

John Keats