We're locked in our selves to the end. This is the price one pays for
thought. But which would you rather be - convict or idiot?
-Michel Duval (Kim Robinson), Green Mars
I cannot believe that the purpose in life is to be "happy." I
think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable,
to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter: to count, to stand for
something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.
-Loe C. Rosten
Faith Manages.
If you have the dream, the ability and the passion, you can bring your
dreams to life despite overwhelming opposition. That's the message.
-J. Michael Straczynski
Vietnam is seen by some as an attractive market despite its poor
infrastructure, unaccountable government, and state-run economy.
-Kurt Oeler, c|Net
It's sorta like serial cleverness. Cleverness is cheap.
-Tom Walton
Since that time, the government's ability to enforce its laws
has been established. As my father wisely pointed out, they own the world's
largest organized mob with unlimited resources.
-Randy Whitted, TechWeb
At least you like what you do, and you can remain only a few keystrokes
away from your friends.
-Emily Domalski
It's just that I've had an epiphany, you know? You get to a point
in retirement where you ask yourself, 'How much golf can you play?'
-Lee Iacocca.
It beats the shit out of being homeless.
-Ivan Kotcher, on moving into his new house after his old house burned
down
Markets tend to cure wild dreams.
-Daniel J. Boone
You would not believe the fluids the body can produce.
-Ivan Kotcher
Anyone who thinks you’re going to have painful choices in Social
Security doesn’t understand the marketplace.
-Newt Gingrich
Special PRIVILEGED ACCESS to areas of this web site, where, in
the EXCLUSIVE company of people ALMOST AS SUCCESSFUL AS YOU, you will be
able to see your cruise-vessel in the final stages of development, with
no TACKY END-USERS on cheap SUBURBAN ISP's hanging around pointlessly,
lost on their way to alt.binaries.pictures.buses or Calvin's Bondage Babes.
-From the Starship Titanic Web Page
It just made men seem like a bunch of flatulent, urinating dolts.
-Kathleen Kotcher on "100 Reasons It's Great To Be Male"
What was up with that friggin' band?
-St. Louis Soccer Coach on the Virginia Pep Band at the Men's Soccer
Final Four '97.
Can we credibly charge fifteen thousand dollars for seven pages?
-Ivan Kotcher
Discharge of a nuclear weapon will be deemed a warlike act even
if accidental.
-From the Travelers' Homeowners Insurance Policy
It's just not smart to antagonize the government.
-Barbara Darrow, Computer Reseller News, on MS vs. DOJ
Facing the combined might of the entire federal government is
not exactly like fighting Borland or Lotus.
-Jeff Matthews, RAM Partners
It is the government and not Microsoft that is the cause of any
confusion that might have been created in the mind of the court and the
view of the public.
-Richard Urowsky, MS Lawyer
Email is like god, Evan, they both work in mysterious ways.
-Pat Yates
Not that I would ever call them grubby little specimines of sub-humanity.
-Ivan Kotcher on Dead Heads
If there's a better definition of time travel than Terry Gilliams's
undigested porridge, I have yet to hear it.
-Thomas Lakeman
The disappearance of frontiers has left many of us feeling like
a dog that has actually caught a car: Now what the hell do I do?
-ibid
Life is too short to stay squeeky clean.
-Morgan Thomas
We humans find evolution boring. It's so, so slow. We don't have
a million years to hang around to evolve something new. We live in the
fastest lane. We are children of change.
-Gerry McGovern
The Internet is a decentralized medium that is the sum total of
all the people using it.
-Ira Magaziner, Internet adviser to the President
It's much more efficient to waste the half hour at it if the half
hour happens to be counted as work time.
-Bill Pemberton
Adam Smith invented capitalism. We just gave it an address.
-Pandesic Corp Advertisement
And all this antitrust stuff doesn't amount to a hill of JavaBeans.
-Mike Elgan, Windows Magazine
So my new theory is: sexual frustration caused by drug-induced
clumsiness sublimates itself into heightened stock-picking ability.
-Greg Forster
You're a high school band teacher. They aren't normal. It's a
cult with instruments.
-Jeff Hawkins
You know, I hate to point this out, but when you're a lying little
ho' no one likes you.
-Ivan Kotcher on Monica Lewinski's 48% unfavorable poll numbers
The good is more bits for everyone.
-Tom Walton
A name tends to lose its naffness and becomes associated with
its own success. The classic example is Microsoft, of course. I mean, as
a company name it's pretty bland - but we never notice that, do we? It's
a word loaded with meaning.
-Lawrence Timms, ipn-ecommerce
To understand the concept, you should think of free speech, not
free beer.
-Richard Stallman on freeware
Fuck all that shit, just buy MathCAD.
-Jim Miller on doing math
Apparently, most media actually started as pornography and sort
of grew from there.
-Douglas Adams
One of the lessons of the Internet is very often that you don't
need to be perfect at the beginning, you just need to be pretty good and
improve over time.
-Win Treese, Open Market Inc.
On the Internet, everyone is a publisher, I agree. It's just that
the great majority of them are really, really awful publishers.
-Gerry McGovern
Almost everywhere in Europe and America the family is in disarray,
violent crime is at intolerable levels, and large numbers of young people
live in a godless stupor, their brains addled by drugs, sex and pop culture,
their educational achievements in terminal decline.
-Roger Scruton, English philosopher, the Wall Street Journal
When there's no information to be had, someone will produce it,
and others will consume it, regardless of the quality or integrity of that
information.
-Kris Kopitzke
Stamp out stupid top level domains in our lifetime!
-Dave Boyes
I'm not quite as reliable when I have unlimited access to Guinness.
-John Audette
In a marketplace of ideas, there are going to be ideas that you
find abhorrent. The best thing to do is to respond to them.
- Barry Steinhardt, President, Electronic Frontier Foundation
What you need is a shower, a haircut, a wardrobe that fits, and
a swift kick in the head.
-George Weilecher, on 'kids today.'
With all the obvious flaws of delay, untidiness, and potential
for abuse, we have not yet found a better way to preserve freedom than
by making the exercise of power subject to the carefully crafted restraints
spelled out in the Constitution.
-Judge Thomas Hogan, overturning the Line Item Veto Act
So we strolled out of our building like secondary characters in
a Fitzgerald novel.
-Mike Carter
I will never run for office again. Never. Not even for dog warden.
-Rep. Bill Paxon, announcing his retirement from Congress
Don't bet against AOL. It's like a cockroach, able to squeeze
itself through some tiny crack in the wall just as your foot is hovering
above it.
-Jeff Pundyk, TechWeb
Because I don't need to worry about finances I can ignore Microsoft
and take over the world from the grassroots.
-Linus Torvalds
It's not a surprise that this is going to be a lengthy and complex
deal in an industry where everybody sues everybody about everything. That's
part of the communications industry today.
-John Sidgemore on the MCI-WorldCom merger
I don't want to move out but not be able to eat meat. When I number
crunch, that's my situation now. It's pathetic, I have a master's degree.
-Elaine Cipriano
I want to acknowledge st. patrick's day! Perhaps some of you think
this verdant holiday is an overcommercialized, tacit/blatant public approval
to get stupidly drunk on a weeknight. Well, yeah, you're pretty much correct.
-Michael Carter
You gotta look like our rates.
-Tom Walton on dressing at trade shows
No matter how important the company is, no matter how great it
is, Microsoft has to abide by the law just like everybody else.
-Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah)
And it is harder for techie executives to adjust to office politics
than it is for others - like marketers and lawyers - because they have
math brains, which are logical and which expect logic to prevail. Corporations
don't adhere to honesty or logic all the time.
-Jeff Kaplan, INS
Sun's attempt to make Java the "war cry" to end Bill Gates' allegedly
anti-competitive antics is diverting attention from the desperate gasp
of vendors clinging to Java for the last hope of a future, any future.
-Niall McKay, InfoWorld
Confusing the hell out of hackers for fun and profit.
-Network Associates advertising slogan
We are humans. We live and die by communication and relationships.
-Gerry McGovern
The future belongs to individuals and organisations who aggressively
manage what they aren't aware of.
-Thornton May
He's provocative, not smart.
-Tom Walton
But that was then. The plug-in industry is dead now. Small-time
developers couldn't survive giving away their software. People today are
upgrading their browsers less and less frequently. E-zines are dropping
off the Net. Wired is tired. Legislation is lurking just up ahead. Spam
is running amok, and Netscape, the company that first showed us all the
possibilities, is limping along.
-Jeff Pundyk on the 'Net today
Sometimes a history is just a history.
-Greg Forster
I can't imagine a technology that has been more underhyped.
-Scott McNealy on Java, 3/98
Bill Gates's net worth now stands at about $50 billion, thanks
to the recent run-up in Microsoft's stock to an all-time high. That means
the Microsoft chief executive's personal net worth is more than the combined
market value of Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and Netscape Communications.
-Jeff Pelline, c|Net, 4/4/98
You should make fun of everybody.
Once you stop making fun of somebody 'cause they took offense, you
end up with Political Correctness.
Fuck whitey. Make fun of everybody.
-Sean Mike Whipkey
On a home-opener afternoon in which the Yankees and Oakland A's
played a game that vaguely resembled baseball, George Steinbrenner couldn't
get over the length of the men's room lines.
-Tim Brown, The New Jersey Star Ledger
We get to make movies for the rest of our lives. Realize that
and have fun.
-Scott Macbeth, Newhouse School of Communication (Syracuse Univ)
Microsoft is acting like the tobacco companies! I rest my case.
-Jesse Berst, Anchordesk
A week ago I would never have considered staying out late on a
Thursday, especially this one because I have a whole shitload of stuff
to do. However, I have now blossomed into a full fledged fuck up, and would
jump at the chance to inebriate myself rather than do work or (sighhhh)
take part in blessed sleep.
-Jessica Anderson
Ben "Hoping to be a drunk little genie next weekend" DeVore
-(obvious)
No, that's not domestic terrorism. I can pretty much guarantee
that's just domestic dumb shit.
-Ivan Kotcher on bomb scares in central Virginia
If Jesus were walking the earth today, I'm convinced He would
have an email address.
-Bishop Paul Loverde
All I gotta say is that it's going to be hard to find a sympathetic
jury willing to listen to some pimply nerd explain how his life was ruined
because his +3 Sword of Masturbation vanished in a server crash.
-Adam Thornton on the Ultima Online class action lawsuit
You're never going to have perfect information and things are
always going to change, so you've got to get out there and do it now.
-Richard McGinn, CEO Lucent Technologies
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all? Hank
the Angry, Drunken Dwarf.
-Maria Seminerio, MSNBC
The market size that can be named is not the true market size.
-Tom Walton
I have no response to that.
-Ivan Kotcher
The Internet has caused business decision processes to change
from rational investment value to emotional driven mass hysteria reaction.
-Associate at John Heim and Associates, in a perfect example of consultantspeak
It is a great drug. I’ll be honest, I was in the protocol and
participated in the program. I think we need to learn more about it. There
are many men out there, millions of men out there, who suffer from impotence
and this may be the first step.
-Bob Dole on Viagra
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