Our Favourite quotes – June 2010
“Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.”
“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without talking about the other”
“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”
BILL GATES, founder and former CEO of Microsoft, PLC
“The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.”
STEVE BALLMER CEO, Microsoft PLC at a workshop in South Africa earlier this year.
“It is the belief of the Government of Uganda that ICT should be utilized to move into the era of electronic service delivery (e-Services) by simplifying procedures, bringing transparency, accountability, and making credible timely information available to all citizens at all levels of implementation of the National Development Plans.”
HON. AGGREY AWORI, Africa ICT Week Seminar “ICTs in Africa: Challenges and Prospects for Developments.
“Science is the future of the country. While Uganda cannot make major technological breakthroughs, we can take advantage of the technology that there is, by studying it…”
PROF. WASWA BALUNYWA, the Principal of Makerere University Business School in an interview with The Rennaisance Journal.
“What if you delete all the files out of your project directory? Fine. Then you can send me an e-mail saying “AAAAAaaaaAAAAAaaAaAHH!” and I’ll restore them.”
MATTHEW HEALY, a lecturer at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester, New York. A student asked about deleting critical files on UNIX systems (no recycle bin or “undo”).
Sometimes the dog does eat your homework.”
PHIL MALONE, director of the cyberlaw clinic at Havard University expalining that viruses can deposit illegal pornographic content on the computers of unwitting victims, causing innocent people to be branded as sexial deviants.
“When I got started in my dorm room at Harvard, the question a lot of people asked was ‘why would I want to put any information on the Internet at all?
FACEBOOK FOUNDER MARK ZUCKERBERG, in an interview with TechCrunch founder, Michael Arrington, about Facebook’s privacy. He said if he were to create Facebook again today, user information would by default be public, not private as it was for years until the company changed dramatically in December 2009.
