Mark Hinkle's Tumblelog

Profound quotes tagged by the less than prolific Mark Hinkle or stuff to random for the Socialized Software Blog
Feb 09
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» "I didn’t either. I minded something else. Did you want to scream, when you were a child, seeing nothing but fat ineptitude around you, knowing how many things could be done and done so well, but having no power to do them? Having no power to blast the empty skulls around you? Having to take orders- and that’s bad enough- but to take orders from your inferiors! Have you felt that?" Gail Wynand
Jan 28
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“ Will: Cause fuck him, that’ why.
— Good Will Hunting (1997) - Memorable quotes
Dec 09
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“ Marketing is the tax you pay for being unremarkable”
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— Four Years | 43 Folders
Dec 01
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“ If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” –Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
— Fantastic Quote | notes to friends…
Nov 19
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“ I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellect. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
— Oscar Wilde
Nov 06
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“ Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
— Albert Einstein
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“ Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
— Albert Einstein
Oct 28
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“ Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
— Winston Churchill
Oct 01
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Definition of Cloud ;)

It’s a term invented by idiot managers who saw all those diagrams where the wider internet is represented by a picture of a cloud and were too stupid to grasp the concept of a representative diagram, so they took the picture of the cloud to be literal, and now there is an entire generation of managers who have an image of electrons flying around the sky. They confusion they suffer is only exacerbated when there’s a thunderstorm and they hear the word “torrent” to describe the rain, thinking that the storm is the result of those damned P2P users.
— Sending Excess Load To the Cloud?
Aug 19
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“ Open source is not a get-rich-quick scheme,” says Marten Mickos, the former CEO of MySQL and now a senior vice-president at Sun. “You have to have patience.” He adds that the company was 13 years old when it sold.
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Open Source: An Open Question for Red Hat and Others

BusinessWeek, August 18th, 2008