Robert X Cringely Quotes

#1. Time management is a big part of the director's job.

Debbie Allen

#2. If you ask someone whether our Constitutional rights are being flushed down the porcelain oubliette, and their response is, "If I answer that honestly they'll arrest me," then you already have your answer.

Robert X. Cringely

#3. Apple and Google will compete like crazy for our data because once they have it we'll be their customers forever.

Robert X. Cringely

#4. There is a fantasy in Redmond that Microsoft products are innovative, but this is based entirely on a peculiar confusion of the words "innovative" and "successful." Microsoft products are successful - they make a lot of money - but that doesn't make them innovative, or even particularly good.

Robert X. Cringely

#5. I think nowadays economic liberties are an explosive issue.

Emma Bonino

#6. I am always tying up
and then deciding to depart.

Frank O'Hara

#7. The simple rule about weapons is that if thery can be built, they will be built.

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#8. Among us we represent islands of time as well as separate oceans of perspective.

Dan Simmons

#9. I think there are differences between men and women. There is more of a softness to women than there is to men, especially when it comes to those more intimate emotions: feeling love, feeling familial connections.

David Bezmozgis

#10. If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.

Robert Cringely

#11. He had managed to lock away everything he didn't want to remember... and the memories returned as well.

Daniel Levine

#12. I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#13. EFR has incredible leverage to the rising uranium price and its projects have massive potential.

David Talbot

#14. I'm a simple man. I like pretty dark-haired women and breakfast food.

Ron Swanson

#15. Theory: People always get fired up when an unattractive girl an unattractive dude are dating each other.

Jesse Andrews

#16. Hewlett Packard at one point had only three private offices. One belonged to Hewlett, one to Packard, and the third to a guy named Paul Ely who annoyed so many coworkers with his bellowing on the phone that the company finally extended his cubicle walls to the ceiling.

Robert X. Cringely

#17. For conservatives, the issue is that for generations now, they have failed to make the case for their values. They haven't even conveyed conservative values to many of their children. And when they have, the university has often succeeded in undoing them.

Dennis Prager

#18. The companies that can afford to do basic research (and can't afford not to) are ones that dominate their markets ... It's cheap insurance, since failing to do basic research guarantees that the next major advance will be oened by someone else.

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#19. More proof that trusting the Feds to protect our information is like hiring Homer Simpson to guard the donuts.

Robert X. Cringely

#20. Yet if she returned home without trying every avenue, could she face her brothers? They depended on her. For once in her life, someone needed Shallan. That responsibility excited her. And terrified her.

Brandon Sanderson

#21. In 1979, for example, Microsoft gave Boeing Commercial Airplane Co. the right to buy any Microsoft product for $50 per copy, until the end of time. Today most Microsoft applications sell in the $300 to $500 range, ten years from now they may cost thousands each.

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#22. In the end when you accept yourself for who you are and you work with what you've got, you couldn't be more beautiful because you're confident and everyone notices.

Lily Collins

#23. For every hour of brains, you will be charged three hours. The other two hours go to management and project management, which is to say they are wasted.

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#24. Abstinence is a perversion.

Bill Maher

#25. If your bank took bailout money, take your money out of that bank and put it in a credit union. Credit unions are owned by the people who have their money in the credit union.

Michael Moore

#26. What you have to watch out for are the theories that claim to be infallible. Because the only way their believers can win is to stomp out everyone who disagrees with them.

Robert X. Cringely