[GreenKeys] Ebay Listing & oops-quotes

[hwhall at compuserve.com]

 I suspect those sorts of oops-quotes happen when (a) the expert has lost touch with the leading edge of the art, or (b) the expertise is in a field not actually applicable to the topic they pontificate upon, or (c) the expert is convinced that the science is settled and no new data need apply.

>"All The News That's Fit To Print" 
>but now, well, I'll leave any comments up to you...

Yeah, a newspaper claim like that seems to be in the category of "just asking for it". :-)

Wayne

 WB4OGM

 

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From: tony.podrasky <tony.podrasky at gmail.com>
To: Greenkeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Mon, Jun 22, 2015 11:18 am
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Ebay Listing


GM OMs

I have that as a quote from IBM.

Here is my favorite quote (re:
computers):

There is no reason for any individual
to have a computer in
their home
-Ken Olsen, President, Digital Equipment,
Convention of the World
Future Society, 1977

This happened to be the year that I bought my
first
Data General Nova 1200 - at $5,000 - which
would be about $50,000 in today's
money!

Other than W6FFC, I don't believe that anyone else
had a computer in
their shack.

On 06/22/2015 09:57 AM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jun
2015, Jeffrey D Angus wrote:
>
> My favourite is "There is a world market for
maybe four computers" where
> the rider "of this type" is conveniently left
off.
>

Here are a couple more quotes that I have as .sigs.

(I kinda "have
it in" for The New York Times, which at one
time honored their slogan "All The
News That's Fit To Print"
but now, well, I'll leave any comments up to
you...


Professor Goddard does not know the relation between
action and
reaction and the need to have something
better than a vacuum against which to
react. He seems
to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high
schools. 
-New York Times editorial, 1921


The flying machine which will really fly
might be
evolved by the combined and continuous efforts of
mathematicians and
mechanicians in from one million
to ten million years. -New York Times, October
9, 1903
(the same day that the Wright brothers began
assembly)


--

MicroSoft error messages written in Haiku:

            
Program aborting:
     Close all that you have worked on.
           You ask
far too
much.
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