Twenty Five Quotes to a World View
"Specialization is for insects"
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"Where our customer needs us and wants us, that’s where we want to be — with our products, with our magazines, with our books, with our television content."
Martha Stewart
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/03/ff_tablet_essays/ hmm, no Web content?
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"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear."
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"While users want to be able to access information in real-time, they will have little tolerance for information and communications that have no relevance to them. Instead, they will want to be able to view the status of their selected circle of contacts, receive information that reflects their actual interests and stay informed about events that will impact their own lives. Real-time communications will therefore need to be coupled with content that is highly tailored, or ‘personalised’."
--Marek Foss
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Believe nothing, consider everything.
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"spend money to save time, rather than those who spend time to save money"
--Marten Mickos MySQL AB
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In battle, TIME IS THE DOMINANT PARAMETER. Responses in the shortest time frame eventually prevail. The opponent gets caught responding to situations that have already changed.
--John Boyd paraphrase from Wikipedia
--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boyd_(military_strategist)
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"Small. Fast. Reliable. Choose any three."
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"We argue that an understanding of these inherent “human factors” vulnerabilities, and the necessity to take them into account during design rather than naïvely shifting the blame onto the “gullible users”, is a fundamental paradigm shift for the security engineer which, if adopted, will lead to stronger and more resilient systems security."
--Frank Stajano and Paul Wilson University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
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"competition will appear faster and marketing will rise to even more prominence as the key skill in a company."
--Dan Woods, Forbes.com "$10million is the new $100million", speaking of tech infrastructure commoditization
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"We Open Doors, Not Windows"
--Perry
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"In business, success isn't simply a matter of being quickest to market, of spending the most, or of selling the highest-quality products. You can win by using any of those methods but only if you do one thing more: Outmaneuver the other guy. You have to decode the environment before he does, act decisively, and then capitalize on his initial confusion by confusing him some more. Agility is the essence of strategy in war and in business."
--Keith Hammonds http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/59/pilot.html
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When IT is toaster simple, people will be impressed.
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"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity."
--John F. Kennedy
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"Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case."
--Arnt Karlsen on gasification listserv, January 2010
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"Macs and Unix boxes get broken into because they are misconfigured, poorly maintained or, in most cases, because the users have incredibly stupid passwords. Windows boxes get broken into because they are misconfigured, poorly maintained, the users have incredibly stupid passwords *and* because Windows doesn't separate users from the system."
--Paul Schmehl - Senior Information Security Analyst University of Texas at Dallas.
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"Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance."
--Robert Quillen from aardvark forums.
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"The sheer quantity of information that is descending upon our organizations is rapidly creating a set of circumstances in which we will not(sic) longer be able to just "wing it." The strategic imperative to manage information effectively will soon become irreversible."
--John Mancini AIIM president AIIM 8 Reasons for IM strategy p. 11
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"Until now we’ve only known that the attackers got in through a vulnerability in Internet Explorer"
- The Google Breach of January 2010
--http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/02/apt-hacks
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"They get it like a dog that has just been shown a card trick."
--the late Bill Hicks - UK comedian
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(Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)
--Numbers 12:3
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"Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of words required to explain anything"
--William of Ockham (1285-1349) From w3schools.com
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"I recently installed Ubuntu on the Dell XPS 200. It is snappier than Windows, and I don't have to deal with product registration numbers, legal restrictions, and installation headaches."
--http://lowendmac.com/ed/hatchett/09jh/difference.html
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"Most manufacturers want to advertise a single feature which adds to the already existing paradigm...
...Of course it is almost impossible for Bean counters, engineers, and starched shirts TO THINK OF THE END USERS. They are more involved in playing it safe. Why would they care? As long as they can maintain the status guo and collect hefty bonuses by introducing just an "add-on" every year then why revolutionize? As a recent article headline stated; "They just don't get Apple".
--Levant on http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/12/16/morgan-stanley-drinks-apple-kool-aid/ emphasis on end users mine
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The iPad isn’t about saving newspapers. It’s about inventing new ways of telling stories, using a whole new language — one that we can’t even imagine right now.
--Fake Steve Jobs on Wired Magazine