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- The following quotes were heard at a recent communications and computing
- conference...
-
- "Marketing is everything; If company <X> were to sell Sushi, they would
- advertise it as 'raw, dead fish'".
-
- "In the year 2050 the crew of an airplane will consist of a pilot and a dog;
- the pilot will be there to feed the dog, and the dog will be there to bite
- the pilot if he tries to touch any of the controls".
-
- "The problem with 'what-you-see-is-what-you-get' is that it is never quite
- what you were expecting".
-
- "UNIX; why is only the *NAME* in upper-case?"
-
- "In 10 years time you will be able to boot DOS on your wristwatch; however
- the first thing it will do is say 'Enter date/time'"
-
- "When AT&T discovered they had an operating system that everyone wanted to
- buy, they disconnected Brian Kernighan's phone"
-
- "2+2=5 (for large values of 2)"
-
- "Trying to run a service on <manufacturer Y>'s hardware is like trying
- to kick a dead whale along a beach".
-
- "The bandwidth of a 747 full of diskettes far exceeds that of any data network
- yet invented".
-
- "The only technical challenge left in hardware procurement is what colour
- to paint the computer room walls".
-
- "When you handle $280 million worth of transactions a day, you do not bother
- to charge for the computer time".
-
- "This system was not designed; it evolved over time, in the same way as the
- Dodo".
-
- "If <company Z>'s salesman told me the time of day, I would ask for an
- independent confirmation".
-
- "Setting the system up was a bit like riding a tandem; some of us did all the
- pushing, but couldn't steer, whilst a few did all the steering, but didnt
- ever get round to doing any of the pushing".
-
-
- And for this, we had to pay 480 a day!!!
-
- 73 de Pete G6WBJ@GB7SDN.GBR.EU PJML@UK.AC.NWL.IA PJML%IA.NWL.AC.UK@UKACRL