Don Whitney

Welcome to THE FALL 2024 Semester!

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Favorite Quotes

"Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure. These things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose." -- Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Address, 2005

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain

One day, you're going to have to make a choice. You just have to decide what kind of a man you want to grow up to be. Because whoever that man is, good character or bad, he's gonna change the world. -- Jonathan Kent, Smallville

"In God we trust; all others must bring data." -- unverified author

"Life is nothing without trivia, but nothing in life is trivial." - Don Whitney

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -- Carl Sagan

"There is no reason anyone in the right state of mind will want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, President of Digital Equipment Corp, 1977

"Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugar water or do you want a chance to change the world?" - Steve Jobs to John Sculley

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. -- Horace Mann, 1859

"Excuse me... What does God need with a starship?" -- Captain James T. Kirk, 1989

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge -- Dr. Stephen Hawking

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. - Proverbs 22:6

“To have made even one person’s life a little better, that is to succeed.” — Henry David Thoreau

"I don't know what weapons will be used for World War III, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones" -- Unknown, just after WWII.

Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in awhile you could miss it. --Ferris Bueller,  June 11, 1986

“It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt” ― Mark Twain

Trust, but verify -- Present Ronald Reagan, 1986. In the original Russian “Doveryai no proveryai”

My advice is don't rule out community college or a trade school.  That's what I did. I graduated at a community college. And it was the best thing I ever did.   -- Mike Rowe, 2017

"Ancient Astronaut Theorists Say Yes" --  History Channel

Your future hasn't been written yet. No one's has! Your future is whatever you make it. So make it a good one! --Doc Emmett Brown, Oct. 27, 1985

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. --Ecclesiastes 1:4

In absentia lucis, tenebrae vincunt. In the absence of light, darkness prevails. -- unknown

If I can't teach you one way, I'll teach ya another. But I'm gonna get the job done. -- John Wayne as Sgt. John M. Stryker in Sands of Iwo Jima 1949

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. - Proverbs 16:18

"You have the strength that comes from knowing." --  GOD, Oh God!, 1977.

This Season in Tech-ish History

OCTOBER

October 4, 1957
Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, into orbit.
October 5, 2011
Steve Jobs Dies (1955-2011).
October 11, 1968
Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard.
October 16, 1985
Intel introduced the 16mz 80386 processor with a 32-bit data bus
October 17, 1979
Personal Software introduces VisiCalc for the Apple II for $99, paving the way for Lotus 123 and then Excel.
October 17, 1956
Mae Jemison, the first African-American female astronaut, is born
October 18, 1842
The first telegraph cable was laid by Samuel Morse in New York Harbor. It was online for only one day until it was snagged by a ship's anchor. Another cable was laid a year later and encased in lead pipe.
October 18, 1931
Thomas Edison dies. He received over 1000 patents in his life.
October 19, 1981
Digital Equipment entered the PC market with a 8-bit processor addon for its VT-100 terminal.
October 19, 1987
Called Black Monday, the Dow Jones fell 23% or 508 points.
October 20, 1906
Dr. Lee DeForest introduced the first 3 element vacuum tube to be used first in radios then later in computers.
October 20, 1960
The first automated post office went into service.
October 21, 1879
Thomas Edison successfully demonstrated the first durable light bulb. The bulb lasted for 40 hours before burning out.
October 21, 1833
The chemist Alfred Bernhard Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He held over 355 patents, including dynamite and smokeless gunpowder.
October 22, 1996
Microsoft launches Expedia online travel services.
October 22, 1903
Biochemical geneticist George Wells Beadle was born in Wahoo, Nebraska. Won a nobel prize for his work in genetic research.
October 23, 1998
Corel announced it would make WordPerfect for the Linux operating system for free over the Internet.
October 24, 1991
Prodigy announced it would ban bulletin boards that included racist content.
October 24, 1938
The Fair Labor Standards Act passed into law the 8-hour work day.
October 25, 1972
The first female FBI agents were admitted for training.
October 26, 1984
Doctors transplanted the heart of a baboon into a human baby.
October 27, 1811
Isaac Merrit Singer, inventor of the sewing machine, was born.
October 27, 1920
Westinghouse Electric, the refrigerator company, receives its radio broadcast license.
October 28, 1955
Bill Gates, a Harvard drop-out, was born in Seattle, Washington.
October 29, 1996
AOL announced it provide unlimited access for a flat fee of $19.99 per month.
October 29, l969
The ARPAnet, the precursor to the Internet, made its first connections.
October 30, 1925
The first television transmission is seen in London, England.
October 30, 1894
The time clock is invented by Daniel Cooper.

NOVEMBER

Microsoft releases Windows 2.0
November 1, 1952
U.S. explodes the first hydrogen bomb.
November 3, 1957
Soviets launch first dog into space.
November 5, 2001
Nintendo releases GameCube.
November 8, 2001
Microsoft releases the Xbox.
November 9, 1934
Astronomer Carl Sagan is born.
November 10, 2001
The first Apple iPod goes on sale in U.S. Thanks Steve!
November 21, 1969
The first permanent ARPANET link was established. The connection was from UCLA to Stanford to UC Santa Barbara to University of Utah. ARPANET later to be also known as DARPANET and is our pre-curser to our Internet.

 

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