Mainframes Quotes

#1. The stagnation of the Japanese economy in the past 20 years is eloquent testimony to the fact that government usually gets it wrong. Sometimes it makes the wrong decision because it fails to anticipate the market (as Japan did when it downplayed laptop computers and stressed mainframes).

Dick Morris

#2. It's not easy to remember, but IBM was the computer industry when I was growing up. You loved 'em. You hated 'em. You knew what they were doing. They had set a standard for mainframes. They also set a standard for great sales focus and heavy product R & D.

Bill Gates

#3. Most of the software I sell runs on mainframes and supercomputers, and is used by multinational corporations and governments. You may not get to see that, but if I have done it properly, hopefully it will make the events in your life transpire more smoothly.

Frederick Lenz

#4. It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful way with the reality of computers as something other than giant mainframes tended by crewcut IBM nerds.

Paul Di Filippo

#5. The boys that lose our directioners are so stupid, they will never find such beautiful girls in the whole entire world.

Niall Horan

#6. Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

Hunter S. Thompson

#7. We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#8. That's a pretty story,' said Afanasievna as she let go of Ansky's genitals. 'A pity I'm too old and have seen to much to believe it.'
It has nothing to do with belief,' said Ansky, 'it has to do with understanding, and then changing.

Roberto Bolano

#9. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hardwork, and learning from failure-

Colin Powell

#10. The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

Tim McGraw

#11. (T)he actions of humans that are most likely to "please God" are also those that allow humans to act collectively to mitigate the negative effects of chance on individual lives.

Dexter Palmer

#12. How in the world had Bonnie managed to get Madeline's ex-husband out of bed at that time of morning to go to work in a homeless shelter? Nathan wouldn't get up before eight a.m. in the ten years they'd been together. Bonnie must give him organic blow jobs. "Abigail

Liane Moriarty

#13. Such states existed only in comparison

Steven Erikson

#14. I feel very privileged to be part of this mission, and when my nomination was announced, I was really very, very happy to be selected for this mission.

Claude Nicollier

#15. The past is prologue!

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#16. Tragedy is the driver of innovation, forcing man to move on and overcome the bonds which hold us back through the ever-present fear.

Benjamin M. Strozykowski

#17. I write because I know that one day I will die, and thus I should experience as many deliberate observations, careful thoughts, wild ideas, and deep emotions as I can before that day occurs.

Amy Tan