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 Web Quotes Worth Pondering

Web publishing is no more about HTML than book publishing is about type fonts.  TLC 


If Netscape or Microsoft could find a way to make web pages twirl in the browser, the next day the web would be full of twirling pages. No one would ask why. The fact that it's the latest thing would be reason enough. TLC Systems  

Web publishing is no more about HTML than book publishing is about type fonts.  TLC 

Prominent or textured backgrounds, funky colored text or links, excessive slow-loading content, and a  strong preoccupation with appearance over content signify a first generation Web site.  Louise N. Walkup  

I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.  -Isaac Asimov

For artists diving into a new technology, it is a triple
short-cut to mastery: you get a free ride on the novelty of
the medium; there are no previous masters to surpass; and
after a few weeks, you are the master. Try that with
the violin.  --Stewart Brand

The journey of a thousand sites begins with but a single click.  TLC systems

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it. Grace Murray Hopper  - On the removal of a 2-inch-long moth from an experimental computer at Harvard in 1945, quoted in Time 16 Apr 84

Text may be a very rich medium, but it looks boring on the screen. It doesn't flash and hop about, so it had to give way to things that did.
Douglas Adams

I'm more interested in new ideas than I am in new technology. TLC Systems

Great sites evolve from good sites. Good sites evolve from mediocre sites. TLC Systems

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.-Joseph Weizenbaum

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.    -Robert X Cringely

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. 
 All's Well that Ends ...
 

Web publishing is no more about HTML than book publishing is about type fonts.  TLC 

Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive! Sir Walter Scott 

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, ...  Edward R Murrow, CBS News
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There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. 1977, Ken Olson, president and founder of Digital Equipment
Corporation,
 

 

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