Robert Fano famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In those days [batch processing] programmers never even documented their programs, because it was assumed that nobody else would ever use them. Now, however, time-sharing had made exchanging software trivial: you just stored one copy in the public repository and therby effectively gave it to the world. Immediately people began to document their programs and to think of them as being usable by others. They started to build on each other's work.
-- Robert Fano

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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

Robert Fano famous quotes

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