Mainframes Quotes & Sayings

Hitler is an outcome of Rousseau. — Bertrand Russell

I thought I knew everything. There's the challenge fate loves best, isn't it? I was ripe for a fall and so ... the apple. — Megan Chance

It's not easy to remember, but IBM was the computer industry when I was growing up. You loved 'em. You hated 'em. You knew what they were doing. They had set a standard for mainframes. They also set a standard for great sales focus and heavy product R & D. — Bill Gates

Most of the software I sell runs on mainframes and supercomputers, and is used by multinational corporations and governments. You may not get to see that, but if I have done it properly, hopefully it will make the events in your life transpire more smoothly. — Frederick Lenz

When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist. — Mencius

It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful way with the reality of computers as something other than giant mainframes tended by crewcut IBM nerds. — Paul Di Filippo

I love meeting fans. The people who are fans of my books are really smart and dedicated, because some independent comics are hard to get. I will drive all the way to Pittsburgh or Detroit to put it in their hands. — Brian Michael Bendis

I'm a pretty boring guy. Compared to Ashton Kutcher, I live a really boring existence. — Denis Leary

Under Musk's direction, X tried out some radical banking concepts. Customers received a $20 cash card just for signing up to use the service and a $10 card for every person they referred. Musk did away with niggling fees and overdraft penalties. In a very modern twist, X also built a person-to-person payment system in which you could send someone money just by plugging their e-mail address into the site. The whole idea was to shift away from slow-moving banks with their mainframes taking days to process payments and to create a kind of agile bank account where you could move money around with a couple of clicks on a mouse or an e-mail. This was revolutionary stuff, and more than 200,000 people bought into it and signed up for X within the first couple of months of operation. — Ashlee Vance

Abbey Lee was a very famous model and had great success. She was very open about the negative aspects of that industry. — Nicolas Winding Refn

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. — Kurt Vonnegut

The 1970s were the decade of megabytes. In the summer of 1970, IBM introduced two new computer models with more memory than ever before: the Model 155, with 768,000 bytes of memory, and the larger Model 165, with a full megabyte, in a large cabinet. One of these room-filling mainframes could be purchased for $4,674,160. By 1982 Prime Computer was marketing a megabyte of memory on a single circuit board, for $36,000. — James Gleick

Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery. — Louis Pasteur

Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros. — Bobby Knight

The stagnation of the Japanese economy in the past 20 years is eloquent testimony to the fact that government usually gets it wrong. Sometimes it makes the wrong decision because it fails to anticipate the market (as Japan did when it downplayed laptop computers and stressed mainframes). — Dick Morris

His heart wept with joy on the inside and his throat dislodged the lump that had been there for days, just long enough for him to whisper back, "I love you too, Judge. I do." Judge — A.E. Via

Do you wonder where poetry comes from? Where we get the songs we sing and the tales we tell? Do you ever ask yourself how it is that some people can dream great, wise, beautiful dreams and pass those dreams on as poetry to the world, to be sung and retold as long as the sun rises and sets, as long as the moon will wax and wane? Have you ever wondered why some people make beautiful songs and poems and tales, and some of us do not? It — Neil Gaiman

It was an accident, said Cora. No such thing, said Rita. Everything is meant. I — Margaret Atwood

Best friends make the worst enemies, they know all your secrets and how to hurt you the most. — Alyson Noel

Winding her arms close around his neck, she closed her eyes. To be embraced, safe in a man's arms when she had never expected it to happen again, this would be enough.Time sheltered their embrace, enfolding them within a summer scented capsule that felt endless and theirs alone. The fragrance of grass and sunlight and nearby water sweetened each breath. Theirs was the music of birds ans the lazy buzz of insects and the beating of two hearts. Yes, she thought, she didn't need more. This would be enough. — Maggie Osborne