Archive for the ‘qotd’ tag
QOTD: Sweaty code
From Diesel Sweeties: “I used to have an amazing rack, but I gave it to my administrator.” 
QOTD: Why the Internet is not like science
Just because something is not on the Internet does not mean it is untrue.
- Adam Rogers, Wired Science
QOTD: ‘good riddance’?
Everything is far from being “broken” as you imply, and you will find that grass may not necessarily be greener on the other side — just different flavours of the same weed.
From the Fedora development mailing list, on Eric S. Raymond’s switch to Ubuntu. (Alan Cox has a more succinct reply.)
QOTD
“Big companies take extraordinary people and make them do ordinary things. Startups take ordinary people and make them do extraordinary things.” I think the magic of Google comes from taking extraordinary people and letting them do extraordinary things.
Oopss?
Wired News presents the 2005 Foot-in-Mouth Awards.
Here are a few noteables:
“I’m going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to f***ing kill Google.” — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, in statements attributed to him in court documents by former Microsoft engineer and recent Google hire Mark Lucovsky.
“Most people don’t even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?” — Thomas Hesse, president of Sony BMG’s global digital business division, in response to complaints that anti-copying technology on some of its CDs creates serious security vulnerabilities in computers.
