Quotes About Y2k

#1. It would be just like programmers to shorten 'the year 2000 problem' to 'Y2K'- exactly the kind of thinking that created this situation in the first place.

Stephen C. Meyer

#2. The Y2K problem is not caused by technical limitations. We simply forgot to think of the problem.

Hasso Plattner

#3. Y2K hype taps our native discomfort with the realities of a dynamic, evolving social order. It elevates personal, local contact over the impersonality of the 'extended order' of trade and technological networks. It suggests that we can wipe the slate clean and start from scratch.

Virginia Postrel

#4. It's funny. I competed against a 13-year old girl at the Winter X Games. I looked down at her birth date and it said 2000. I was like, "Huh, I wonder if she even knows what Y2K is?" But I guess I've just been able to build a foundation.

Kelly Clark

#5. How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

Al Gore

#6. Perhaps we are yet to feel the full impact of the Y2K bug but so far it's been quiet.

Michael McGirr

#7. The Y2K bug is a genuine technical concern, consuming the energies of many specialists. But the prophecies of doom represent a broader worldview using the bug as a news hook. In this vision, the good society is a stable society, undisrupted by innovation, ambition or outside influences.

Virginia Postrel

#8. When the Mayan Calendar runs out there will be another day. Just like there was with Y2K.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#9. It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.

Larry Wall

#10. W2K will be a bigger disaster than Y2K.

Scott McNealy

#11. The reader [as well as the main character] does not view the work from outside. He too is in the labyrinth.

Alain Robbe-Grillet

#12. If you pick up a guitar and it says, 'take me, I'm yours,' then that's the one for you

Frank Zappa

#13. There was no opiate like a French pillow.

David McCullough

#14. There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.

Steve Jobs

#15. I am one of those people that believes that if I am going through something, somebody else out there among those billions of people living on this Earth is going through something similar, if not the same thing

Yolanda Adams

#16. But as soon as you saw his hot, naked bod, you must have been like Bond, what bond? Oh, you mean bondage?

H.P. Mallory

#17. I boil the strings so they stretch.

Eddie Van Halen

#18. See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#19. Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.

Wayne Dyer

#20. When Jefferson visited Adams in England in the spring of 1786, the two former revolutionaries were presented at court and George III ostentatiously turned his back on them both. Neither man ever forgot the insult or the friend standing next to him when it happened.

Joseph J. Ellis

#21. I just realized that we're facing here is an empathy gap. And this was just another way to generate conversation about something that nobody wanted to look at.

Teju Cole

#22. My father used to beat me with his belt ... while it was still on him.

Zach Galifianakis

#23. With a nation at war against terrorism and our men and women on the front line defending our homeland from abroad, resources need to be prioritized and allocated properly.

Jeff Miller

#24. Judging is acting on a limited knowledge. Learn the art of observing without evaluating.

Pushpa Rana