17 Quotes by Robert Rosen


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    Ideas do not have to be correct in order to be good; its only necessary that, if they do fail, they do so in an interesting way.

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    For the next 16 hours, fueled by coffee and amphetamines, I wrestled with John Lennon's scrawls and codes and symbols. As I transcribed his words, I said them out loud like an incantation, and I began to feel Lennon's energy flowing through me.

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    Yeah, we all hated the Nazis, and if anybody didn't, he kept his fool mouth shut about it. Because if you lived in Flatbush, you were surrounded by Jews. And Jews, having paid the price in blood, now owned the Nazis outright, and we could do anything we wanted to them.

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    Nobody has a pure mainframe or pure IBM site. Everybody has a little bit of everything.

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    For me to take someone's pic they have to have 'the look'. It may be a mix of different things - beauty, fame, flamboyance, a gorgeous outfit, but whatever it may be, they have to exude style.

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    The problem is, unless you are benchmarking your own work, it is hard to decide what value the benchmark has. Usually it is just another data point and it allows you to compare two different systems.

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    We are particularly concerned about the increased graphics requirement, so we will need to do a fair amount of testing to ensure that it doesn't bog down the systems too much with our current hardware.

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    Users provide the real quality of this meeting. They tell it like it is. They share ideas and share software, too. SHARE and its SHARE library invented the open source concept.

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