Dr Wingnut

Category: Quotations

  • Choices

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    The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.Flora Whittemore

  • Worry

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    As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.Julius Caesar

  • Desire

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    Nothing is more valuable than the user at the moment of desire.  When a user searches, that user has a demand.  At that moment in time, they want.Gartner analyst Whit Andrews in article, "Search and Destroy" Time, December 22, 2003

  • How big is a Google?

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    "We liked doing big things, and googol [the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros] is a huge number." Larry Page, cofounder with Sergey Brin, of GoogleFor the record, the googol is: 10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000…

  • Recognition

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    It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.Mark Twain

  • Notable

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    I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered.  But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall".Eleanor RooseveltThe secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending and having the…

  • Mental Gymnastics

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    A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.Oliver Wendell Holmes