Mark Hinkle's Tumblelog

Profound quotes tagged by the less than prolific Mark Hinkle or stuff to random for the Socialized Software Blog
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.