Y2K is showing everyone what technical people have been dealing with for years: the complex, muddled, bug-bitten systems we all depend on, and their nasty tendency toward the occasional disaster.
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DONNA BERGER People having a victim complex are not apt to count on themselves in dealing with problems and they ... SUNDAY ADELAJA Our stance has been in big enterprise applications, it was obvious that people were buying ahead to ... DAN NILES What I hear all the time is that forestry is not rocket science, and it's not, ... It's ha... ERIC TAYLOR I was obsessed with Carol Burnett and then Tracey Ullman. Like, obsessed with their shows. LENNON PARHAM Unfortunately, we have a tendency to see figures from the past as caricatures - either all good or a... NATHANIEL PHILBRICK My dad was a drummer on the weekends when he was young. Being a kid in the '50s, he got bitten by th... KEITH URBAN With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated th... GEOFF MULGAN We could have very well came to the airport with all our gear, and that would have been a disaster b... KJELL RYE You despise the real bourgeois classes for all their snobbishness and their snobbish voices and ways... JOHN FOWLES Our feeling here at AT&T is that we won't close the book on Y2K until February 29. First of all, we ... DAVE JOHNSON We're dealing with products that can literally mean the difference between life and death, so it is ... DENNIS COOK With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environ... JAMAIS CASCIO The scouts who have been looking at (Shore) for three years have been waiting for this, he's been hi... STAN HYMAN In the 35 years I've been around, the seniors have always done a good job. And we still depend on th... BOB NIELSEN Our two companies have had a successful working relationship for years. We currently provide air dat... JAN MATHIESEN I think I have some very meaningful relationships with people; we all do. At the same time, I recogn... CASS MCCOMBS First of all, we have seen now in six years of Obamacare that it has been a disaster. It is the bigg... TED CRUZ What I've been able to learn from her is what she's taught me about dealing with student athletes on... KAREN ASTON I personally think that people are a little bummed that not more happened [for Y2K] - it's very anti... ABNER GERMANOW We anticipate plenty of groceries on the shelf for Y2K and hereafter. BRIAN SANSONI We have taken another giant step in our march toward Europe, ... The journey will be fraught with di... RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN We have raised a lot of money. But we're still helping people with disaster relief efforts for the O... DARREN IRBY What motivates me is seeing people in the crowd and wondering what they're going home to and wha... HAYLEY WILLIAMS Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER I started racing myself and once you get bitten by that bug you really are hooked. NICK MASON K [Kissinger] called from New York all disturbed because he felt someone had been getting to the P [... BOB WOODWARD Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you... ANDRE GIDE We are making recommendations to change FEMA to better address the disability community. Everyone ne... DANIEL SUTHERLAND We need the community's support and that's what Dining for Disaster is all about. FLORENCE KAWOCZKA She manipulates the press and her publicity. What Diana is trying to do is what people have been try... MARK SAUNDERS People depend on that money. Yet many Hispanic businesses have been telling people to go through wit... ANA BOLANOS For the administrators who dial in from California, yeah, I'm concerned, but in many cases I didn't ... JAROD TUFTS the thing sat up and hissed at us, with those nasty teeth showing. We had guys running out of its wa... MIKE HARGROVE We have a problem with dealing with race in our country. We have a problem with dealing with marriag... JEFF NICHOLS I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcemen... ANDY HERTZFELD For Warsaw's size, the current state of the system is in rather good shape. Most communities have mu... BRIAN HOUGHTON People gravitate toward things that work, and technical analysis has worked well over the past three... BILL RHODES It's a disaster. They told us three months ago that Y2K isn't going to have any effect on them at al... DAN NILES Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for... GEORGE BANCROFT Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for ... GEORGE BANCROFT We have been building the software for the past five to six years (to cope with) SA's complex health... GRANT NEWTON Our campaign gives teeth to what small business owners have been saying for years: the tax code is f... JACK FARIS My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do fo... WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN Everyone is born equal; we will all die and shed our earthly glory. Riches, power and fame last for ... ANNE FRANK During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that,... GARY WOLF What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are ... LEONARD COHEN Otherwise, we will be dealing with this for the next 10 years. CHARLIE SCHAFFER In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python module... GUIDO VAN ROSSUM Do what is best for you; it will be the best for the world. DEBASISH MRIDHA Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th... 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I've been dealing with [professional athletes] for years. Believe me, this i... ARNIE WEXLER Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are... HENRY VAN DYKE Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are HENRY VAN DYKE I think that, you know, looking at all the systems that I've been studying over the last several... AVI RUBIN In the old days in France, they had beheadings of people who commit heinous crimes, ... Nevada Newsm... OSCAR GOODMAN Chewing tiger nut is good exercise for the mouth, i love its nutty taste SOTONYE ANGA Based on our past experience with 9/11 and Y2K, we know that these people (scam artists) are out the... BOB WEBSTER Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously t... JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER We have a vigorous suicide prevention program. Everyone at least once is trained to recognize the wa... MARTHA RUDD Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS We have been receiving phone calls from employers all over the area asking what can they do to help ... BRIAN DAVIS Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless ... DILYS LAING We doing our best to service both groups, ... Our staff has been great dealing with all of our clien... GWEN ROBINSON That's what we've been dealing with all season. It was disappointing we couldn't show how good a def... VICTOR ABIAMIRI It's something that we faced all year long with the injury bug, so we're prepared. We go out there w... JASON TERRY We don't lead, we guide. We depend on peer counselors and children who have been through the process... KRIS GRAWITCH
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Laugh as much as you can. Laugh until you cry. Cry until you laugh. Keep doing it even if peo... ELLEN DEGENERES This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize lov... ELLEN HOPKINS If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should u... ELLEN DEGENERES I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful ... ELLEN DEGENERES Girls get screwed. Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of... ELLEN HOPKINS When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. ELLEN KEY I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice ... ELLEN GLASGOW Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- the three I s -- are all indispensable to the actress, bu... ELLEN TERRY Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. 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ELLEN DEGENERES We cannot look at the child who has been raped and offer the theological maxim that God will draw so... ELLEN VAUGHN Whatever we are waiting for -- peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abun... ELLEN VAUGHN He knows so little and knows it so fluently. ELLEN GLASGOW Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. ELLEN GLASGOW What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time . The wonderful luxury of being at r... ELLEN GOODMAN Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting. ELLEN GLASGOW People tend to remember my performances, not me. ELLEN BARKIN There ELLEN GOODMAN He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent... ELLEN GLASGOW Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffec... ELLEN KEY Acting is a matter of giving away secrets. ELLEN BARKIN I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, So... ELLEN DEGENERES Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. ELLEN TERRY Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. ELLEN DEGENERES Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams. ELLEN SIMON Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up. ELLEN GOODMAN I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is c... ELLEN DEGENERES