Mainframe Computers Quotes

#1. GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.

Jack Dangermond

#2. We're leading a fundamental shift from centralized energy to distributed energy. Energy will go in that direction, just like mainframe computers went to client servers, then to the Internet. I believe in solar, and the macro trends are just too undeniable.

Lynn Jurich

#3. In an interview in 1992, Leary stated, "It is a genetic imperative to explore the brain. Because it's there. If you're carrying around in your head 100 billion mainframe computers, you just have to get in there and learn how to operate them.

Maxwell Maltz

#4. What gives these corporations like CONOCO, SHELL, EXXON, DIASHAWA, ITT, RIO TINTO ZINC, and the WORLD BANK a right which supercedes or is superior to my human right to live on my land, or that of my family, my community, my nation, our nations, and to us as women?

Winona LaDuke

#5. My father once discovered that one cannot "walk off" gangrene.

James Nicoll

#6. Try to see the past as a room separate from the one you live in now. You can go in there, but you don't live there anymore.

Richard Templar

#7. Adversity breeds toughness, and the tough succeed. And survive.

Dean Koontz

#8. In Puppies Behind Bars, when the puppy is eight weeks old it is given to an inmate. The inmate is responsible for the dog.

Doris Roberts

#9. Training the workforce of tomorrow with today's high schools is like trying to teach kids about today's computers on a 50-year-old mainframe.

Bill Gates

#10. The world is certainly full of beautiful things, if only I could come across them.

E. M. Forster

#11. What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

Gertrude Stein

#12. The total amount of energy we use every year - from coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, nuclear, and everything else - is dwarfed by the amount of solar energy hitting the planet each year.

Ramez Naam

#13. I have many names; some call me Mr. Ra, others call me Mr. Re, you can call me Mr. Mystery.

Sun Ra

#14. A stack overflow error caused cabin fever and the reset button was Pattaya.

Owen Jones

#15. Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#16. You can only trust your emotions as you can lie to yourself with your brain but not your heart.

Carl White

#17. The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.

Frank McCourt