Dibona Quotes

#1. If the Bible is what it claims to be, how can we allow it to remain on a bookshelf?

Steven J. Lawson

#2. If [YouTube] were to switch to Theora and maintain even a semblance of the current YouTube quality it would take up most available bandwidth across the internet,

Chris DiBona

#3. I recall this sergeant's informing me and my "room-mates" of this rather deplorable fact the army didn't have any official, excuse me, didn't have no official song and suggested that we work on this in our copious free time.

Tom Lehrer

#4. I had no intention to cover my tracks since I am not a politician and I do not represent anybody.

Tariq Ramadan

#5. Descartes gave sight to the blind. These saw the errors of antiquity and of the sciences. The path he struck out is since become boundless [ ... ] In fathoming this abyss no bottom has been found. We are now to examine what discoveries Sir Isaac Newton has made in it.

Voltaire

#6. Calling EMACS an editor is like calling the Earth a hunk of dirt.

Chris DiBona

#7. He said that children always have different parents, even in the same family.

Karin Slaughter

#8. Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.

Quentin Crisp

#9. Is the absolute and essential importance of human development in its richest diversity.

John Stuart Mill

#10. It is easy to sympathize with the MIS staffs around the world, I mean who hasn't lost work due to Windows or a Microsoft application crashing?

Chris DiBona

#11. I feel this is very much our spiritual and political duty to be part of every peace table, it has often been the case that citizenry
women and men
can make progress when it is not possible for the officials to be able to meet at that moment in time.

Gloria Steinem

#12. Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.

R.C. Sproul

#13. Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble, curiosity dulled and experience has begotten cynicism, that accidia lies in wait as the final temptation to destruction.

Evelyn Waugh

#14. Think of RepRap as a China on your desktop.

Chris DiBona

#15. The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.

Alan Greenspan

#16. Yes, virus companies are playing on your fears to try to sell you bs protection software for Android, RIM and IOS. They are charlatans and scammers. IF you work for a company selling virus protection for android, rim or IOS you should be ashamed of yourself.

Chris DiBona

#17. I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence.

Frederick Lenz

#18. Has worrying about tomorrow every changed it?

Max Lucado

#19. I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do.

Tony Benn

#20. Most couples manage to cooperate on child raising - for us, our brain project is our third child, so nothing different, really.

Edvard Moser