"Everything that I've learned about computers at MIT I have boiled down into three principles: Unix: You think it won't work, but if you find the right wizard, they can make it work. Macintosh: You think it will work, but it won't. PC/Windows: You think it won't work, and it won't."

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Source : Philip Greenspun (1999). “Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing”, p.202, Morgan Kaufmann

Philip Greenspun

#Thinking Quotes #Three Quotes #Mit Quotes

“Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.”
“...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.”
“... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole community. Our idea was that we were most likely to justice in such a community, and so be able to decide the question we are trying to answer. We are therefore at the moment trying to construct what we think is a happy community by securing the happiness not of a select minority, but of a whole.”
“Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability.”
“There is an intuitive knowing within us that we are eternal but this gets covered over with the noise we create while identifying with the impermanent.”
“The keeper of the keys was one of the most important roles a household servant could hold (Mark 13:32-34). A higher official held the keys in a royal kingdom (Is 22:22) and in God's house, the temple.”

Source : "Dan Rather: 'Quote approval' a media sellout" by Dan Rather, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2012.
“The best laughs are on the recognition of truth.”
“Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time for this to stop and for Washington to focus on what needs to be done.”

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