[GreenKeys] Ebay Listing & oops-quotes

[Richard Knoppow]

     Or the N.Y. Daily News (or now the Post) version "All the News That 
Fits We Print".

On 6/22/2015 10:35 AM, hwhall at compuserve.com wrote:
> I suspect those sorts of oops-quotes happen when (a) the expert has 
> lost touch with the leading edge of the art, or (b) the expertise is 
> in a field not actually applicable to the topic they pontificate upon, 
> or (c) the expert is convinced that the science is settled and no new 
> data need apply.
>
> >"All The News That's Fit To Print"
> >but now, well, I'll leave any comments up to you...
>
> Yeah, a newspaper claim like that seems to be in the category of "just 
> asking for it". :-)
>
> Wayne
> WB4OGM
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tony.podrasky <tony.podrasky at gmail.com>
> To: Greenkeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Mon, Jun 22, 2015 11:18 am
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Ebay Listing
>
> GM OMs
>
> I have that as a quote from IBM.
>
> Here is my favorite quote (re:
> computers):
>
> There is no reason for any individual
> to have a computer in
> their home
> -Ken Olsen, President, Digital Equipment,
> Convention of the World
> Future Society, 1977
>
> This happened to be the year that I bought my
> first
> Data General Nova 1200 - at $5,000 - which
> would be about $50,000 in today's
> money!
>
> Other than W6FFC, I don't believe that anyone else
> had a computer in
> their shack.
>
> On 06/22/2015 09:57 AM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Jun
> 2015, Jeffrey D Angus wrote:
> >
> > My favourite is "There is a world market for
> maybe four computers" where
> > the rider "of this type" is conveniently left
> off.
> >
>
> Here are a couple more quotes that I have as .sigs.
>
> (I kinda "have
> it in" for The New York Times, which at one
> time honored their slogan "All The
> News That's Fit To Print"
> but now, well, I'll leave any comments up to
> you...
>
>
> Professor Goddard does not know the relation between
> action and
> reaction and the need to have something
> better than a vacuum against which to
> react. He seems
> to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high
> schools.
> -New York Times editorial, 1921
>
>
> The flying machine which will really fly
> might be
> evolved by the combined and continuous efforts of
> mathematicians and
> mechanicians in from one million
> to ten million years. -New York Times, October
> 9, 1903
> (the same day that the Wright brothers began
> assembly)
>
>
> --
>
> MicroSoft error messages written in Haiku:
>
>              
> Program aborting:
>       Close all that you have worked on.
>             You ask
> far too
> much.
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Richard Knoppow
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WB6KBL

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