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Quotes by Scientist
"I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of."
"It was in the Seventies but I still recall what was a good night for my club. Of course, the stadium has changed now but I have heard that the atmosphere is still the same."
"In fact, we just surpassed our first 1 million simultaneous users online."
"And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more."
"We also have a conference call feature where up to five people can talk on one Skype call."
"Skype is for any individual who has a broadband Internet connection."
"People need to access Skype wirelessly, no matter where they are, and what happens is that we'll be taking advantage of the rollout of Internet everywhere - WiFi and WiMax in particular."
1
"The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century."
"We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries."
"When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff."
5
"It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on Google you don't pay for that. But sometimes you click on an advert and Google makes money on that."
"They also can combine voice with instant messaging and online file sharing."
8
"In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people."
"We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this."
"If we intensify our efforts we can have a cloned baby within a year or two, but I don't know whether we can intensify our efforts to that extent. We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one."
"Because, you see, what I want to do is to commoditize the OS. I want to have access to all the applications that I need to do the things that I need to do, regardless."
Want,
"Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer."
"I don't get much sense of reward from having discovered how to get the Foo card to coexist with the Bar card."
"I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more."
"I use a really simple calendar program on my computer."
"Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely."
"My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others."
"See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy."
Joy,
"Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes."
"Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them?"
Old,
"On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology; but to the listener, it wouldn't necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense."
"If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works."
"The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old."
"The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination."
"On vacation, I totally unplug. I don't bring a laptop with me."
"It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity."
"I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it."
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