Server Quotes

• In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.

  Richard Power

  Technology, People, Computer

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• First, our focus on security is on the infrastructure itself. So it is all about how you protect the network, the device, and the application that is riding on the server.

  John W. Thompson

  Focus, Riding, Firsts

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.

  Michael Dell

  Success, Business, Educational

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• The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  High Heels, Names, Important

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• If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?

  Aaron Allston

  Domain, Hacks, Ifs

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• If eating out, order your meal and ask the server to wrap up half of the portion to take home with your for the next day, keeping your portion size in check, and stretching your dollar into two meals.

  Cat Cora

  Home, Order, Two

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• One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion.

  Wietse Venema

  Machines, Bugs, Intrusion

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• There are a lot of people whove been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.

  Nat Friedman

  People, Collaboration, Machines

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• I basically wrote the code and the specs and documentation for how the client and server talked to each other.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Documentation, Clients, Specs

  "Interview with the Web’s Creator". Interview With Chris Oakes, www.wired.com. October 23, 1999.

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• The right server for the right job.

  Bob Muglia

  Jobs

  "Microsoft's Vision to Help IT Customers Reduce Complexity and Deliver Greater Business Value". PressPass Interview, news.microsoft.com. June 7, 2005.

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• I did not have textual relations with that server.

  Hillary Clinton

  Relation

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• You have to remember the way the internet works, when you communicate with the server, it's very likely not in your country. It's somewhere else in the world.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Somewhere Else, World

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• I don't need a hard disk in my computer if I can get to the server faster... carrying around these non-connected computers is byzantine by comparison.

  Steve Jobs

  Needs, Byzantine, Computer

  Steve Jobs Apple WWDC Keynote, www.onstartups.com. 1997.

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• Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Together, Months, Dollars

  "WordPress, Matt Mullenweg" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2006.

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• The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.

  Ken Thompson

  Program, Programming

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• Enterprise is hard work. You have to integrate the client with the optimized systems of all the servers and software.

  Samuel J. Palmisano

  Hard Work, Clients, Integrating

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• Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Clouds, Computer, Centralization

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• There wasn't enough gratitude in the world for a server who kept drinks coming at a time like this.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Gratitude, World, Drink

  Jennifer Crusie (2010). “Tell Me Lies”, p.355, Macmillan

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• Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with a browser, so they look at web pages - but they can also leave comments, create web pages. They can even host their own server! So not only is everybody consuming, they can also produce.

  Marc Andreessen

  Looks, Pages, Host

  "The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. April 24, 2012.

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• Removed from 'Gmail' doesn't necessarily mean removed from all Google servers. In fact, your old emails are the data set from which Google models our behaviors - the real product it is offering its advertisers.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Real, Mean, Offering

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• So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.

  Sylvia Plath

  Eye, Cutting, Pie

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.438, Anchor

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• Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value.

  Jaron Lanier

  Sirens, Blind, Narcissist

  Jaron Lanier (2014). “Who Owns the Future?”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. "Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette," she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Long, Smoking, Complaining

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2010). “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America”, p.31, Macmillan

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• When I was dating and the wine list was presented to my male companion, I tried to ignore this unfortunate faux pas. But this practice still goes on...Closing note to all servers and sommeliers: please include women in wine selection. Okay?

  Alpana Singh

  Wine, Practice, Dating

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• One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Government, Blame, Sensible

  Taylor Caldwell (2017). “Great Lion of God: A Novel About Saint Paul”, p.120, Open Road Media

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