Robert X Cringely Famous Quotes
"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost 100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside."
Robert X Cringely Quotations
"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field."
Niels Henrik David Bohr
"Trust in Allah, but tie your camel."
Muslim Proverb
Le sens commun n'est pas si commun (Common sense is not so common)
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive."
William Frank Buckley Jr
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Chinese Proverb
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Noel Adams
"History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology."
Wystan Hugh Auden
"There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things."
Henry James
"Here's a suggestion for a new animal, if some new ones get created or evolve something that stings you, then laughs at you."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts