Interoperable Quotes & Sayings

Our sense of "open" is that the authority to make decisions about that gets distributed based on merit and understanding and participation and leadership, not solely on employment or a title or a business plan. Technical colleagues will define "open" as "open standards," "interoperable" - you can find it, search it, cut and paste it, view source, mix and match - all those things that we associate with text on the Web, that you can continue to do that with audio and video and whatever's next. — Mitchell Baker

Same old Satanic pact, only more of it. — Thomas Pynchon

For we form so extravagant an idea of certain characters that we would be incapable of identifying one of them with the familiar features of a person of our acquaintance. — Marcel Proust

Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation of numbers. — Henry Mintzberg

Self-master is the greatest success. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you like your remote messaging fat, dumb, and interoperable, you could also look into the SOAP libraries distributed with Ruby. — Dave Thomas

I have the longing that all writers have for new ears to pour my words into. — Alasdair MacLean

It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus. — John F. Kennedy

If you perform on a stage or you sing a song, it's like you sing your song, and then the words go into the air, and then they go into somebody's body through their ears, so it's kind of like penetrating somebody. It's kind of like having sex with somebody - but, obviously, from a great distance. — Jarvis Cocker

Perfect silence. This in response to Sully's key being turned in the ignition of the pickup. — Richard Russo