Vogels Quotes

#1. The Vogels were quite strict in what they acquired. They never acquired a projection. They never acquired a sound piece. They were never big on photos that much, unless it was photos documenting something. They had some limitations into what they bought.

Robert Barry

#2. We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot afford that filthy poison to touch you. Stay away from it. Avoid it.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#3. What sets the The Next Web apart is a focus on the internet as a key driver for a global market. Their international view is unique, making their blogs a must read and their conferences a must attend for professionals like me who do business around the globe

Werner Vogels

#4. Our belief in a limited and impoverished identity is such a strong habit that without it we are afraid we wouldn't know how to be.

Jack Kornfield

#5. After I avoided all my calls for another day, Mrs. Dunham came by my room and politely told me that if she had to speak to my panicked mother one more time, ahe would very publicly set herself on fire.

Brittany Cavallaro

#6. A service is said to be scalable if when we increase the resources in a system, it results in increased performance in a manner proportional to resources added,

Werner Vogels

#7. There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.

Jim Allchin

#8. I love that the world is data intensive ... unfortunately, it's called 'Big Data.'

Werner Vogels

#9. We Americans think, in every country in transition, there's a Thomas Jefferson hiding behind some rock or a James Madison beyond one sand dune.

Joe Biden

#10. Everything fails, all the time.

Werner Vogels

#11. Using clouds is a radical way of consuming IT. There are emotional barriers to giving up some level of control over the servers that you are running [for the companies].

Werner Vogels

#12. The Grail is the womb of the beloved.

Robert Anton Wilson

#13. The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.

Mark Twain

#14. If you're concerned about scalability, any algorithm that forces you to run agreement will eventually become your bottleneck. Take that as a given.

Werner Vogels

#15. Do you know the runes on your sword are nonsense?"
"Yes, but they look mysterious.

Ilona Andrews

#16. I think as a culture, we don't like conflict or looking at icky stuff - especially in our downtime.

Kathleen Hanna

#17. His name wasn't Handsome McHotpants. I didn't know his name

Penny Reid

#18. I was a blank canvas, no thoughts, no emotions, no needs or desires, just a square of white floating through a loud, chaotic world, and life would paint me with color and substance, smear and spread and colorize me.

Jasinda Wilder

#19. All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

Elbert Hubbard