Evolution has no business plan.
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Category Archives: Quotable Quotes
Marketing
If you have an apple and you want to sell me your apple and, in spite of me telling you I do not need, do not want and indeed will never need or want your apple, you continue to ring me on a daily basis during dinner time to try to explain why I should buy your apple then I reserve the right to tell you to stick your f***ing apple where the sun does not shine. Get the idea?
Karl Auer, June 2006
Past tense
We are many; the future will certainly find enough of our bones to work with.
Karl Auer, July 2006
Apostrophe’s
There once was a sad old apostrophe
Whose functions had started to atrophe.
It lay in it’s bed
Weakly shaking it’s head
And murmuring “its a catastrophe!”
Karl Auer, October 2006
No excuse
The odd placid Tibetan monk or eccentric English vicar does not make up for the megalitres of blood spilled in the name of God.
Karl Auer, January 2007
Three speeds
There are only three speeds in computing. They are ‘too slow’, ‘fast enough’ and ‘I don’t know ‘.
Karl Auer, March 2007
Possible, probable….
The only things that definitely will not happen are those that break the laws of physics, and those that break fundamental human behaviours. Everything else is at least possible. To see if it’s probable, just imagine it being really easy and really cheap. If the picture changes, then that thing is probable.
Karl Auer, June 2007
Roads vs networks
Roads costs a great deal more than fibre per metre laid, yet hardly anyone ever questions the utility of roads, even to the smallest of outlying settlements.
Karl Auer, July 2007
Kids and censorship
Kids interpret censorship as failure and route around it.
Karl Auer, August 2007
NAT as a front-loading washing machine
I keep lots of stuff on top of my front-loading washing machine – detergents, pegs and so on. NAT provides a security benefit in the same way that a front-loading washing machine provides a storage benefit.
Karl Auer, August 2008