[wplug] Quote of the Day

Eddie M. Gonzalez wm_eddie at comcast.net
Mon Apr 11 22:52:25 EDT 2005


"In fact when you are trying to do something big, there's nothing more
practical than idealism.  Idealism can keep people moving on the job
until it's done, even if it takes decades, without idealism why are they
going to keep going?"  --Richard Stallman (54:10 20050407_RMS.ogg)


On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 11:51 -0400, Sean McCune wrote:
> Idealism could work sometimes.  But for a boring business database app, idealism isn't going to cut it for me.  I'll take a check, that way I can continue to eat and live indoors.  ;)
> 
> McC
> 
> Teodorski, Christopher wrote:
> > Vance,
> > 
> > Speaking of quotes of the day -- did you happen to write down the quote
> > from RMS about idealism being the only thing to get you through long
> > projects?
> > 
> > Just wondering -- I can search the ogg file if you didn't.
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wplug-bounces+christopher.teodorski=ddiworld.com at wplug.org
> > [mailto:wplug-bounces+christopher.teodorski=ddiworld.com at wplug.org] On
> > Behalf Of Vance Kochenderfer
> > Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 11:41 AM
> > To: wplug at wplug.org
> > Subject: [wplug] Quote of the Day
> > 
> > "Actually, 'Ubuntu' comes from an ancient african word meaning
> > 'overrated'."  --blackbelt_jones, in
> > <http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2005-04-09-009-26-OS-DB&tbov
> > rmode=1#talkback_area>
> > 
> > Vance Kochenderfer        |  "Get me out of these ropes and into a
> > vkochend at nyx.net          |   good belt of Scotch"    -Nick Danger
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