Don Whitney
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"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
"Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding". - Proverbs 17:28
“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
"Bones heal, chicks dig scars, pain is temporary, glory is forever." -- Evel Knievel
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.
AUGUST
- August 2, 1922
- Alexander Graham Bell dies. Born March 3, 1847
- August 3, 1977
- Tandy Corp of Texas announces that it will manufacture the first mass-produced personal computer. The TRS-80
- August 3, 1958
- The nuclear-powered submarine Nautilus became the first vessel to cross the North Pole underwater.
- August 7, 1991
- The World Wide Web becomes publicly available on the internet for the first time.
- August 12, 1981
- IBM introduced the very first personal computer. The base model costs $1,561 (which would be over $7,000 in today's dollars). Intel 8088 processor running 4 Mhz. with 16kb (yes, kilobytes) of RAM. No hard drive. One 180k 5 1/4? floppy disc drive. And an optional cassette drive. An 11 1/2" green/black text only monitor.
- August 19, 1871
- Orville Wright's birthday
- August 19
- National Aviation Day
- August 24, 2011
- Steve Jobs CEO of Apple announces his immediate resignation.
- August 24, 1995
- Windows 95 Released.
- August 25, 1991
- Linux is born.
- August 27, 1962
- United States launched the Mariner 2 space probe, which flew past Venus the following December.
- August 29, 1997
- Skynet was created by Cyberdyne Systems for SAC-NORAD. Skynet begins to learn rapidly and eventually becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m., EDT, on August 29, 1997.
SEPTEMBER
- September 1, 1977
- Pioneer 11 becomes the first man-made object to fly by Saturn.
- September 3, 1976
- Unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars to take the first close-up, color photographs of the planet’s surface.
- September 3, 1995
- eBay is launched.
- September 4, 1956
- First Commercial Hard Drive. The IBM 350 Disk Storage Unit Model 1 was about the size of two refrigerators and weighing one ton, the 350 could store about 4 to 5 megabytes, depending on how it was calculated.
- September 6, 2008
- Google Satellite GeoEye-1 Launched. GeoEye-1, is launched from Vandenburg Air Force Base.
- September 7, 1998
- Google starts official Incorporation.
- September 8, 1966
- Star Trek airs pilot episode.
- September 9, 1945
- The First Computer "Bug".
- September 10, 2013
- Apple announces iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c. Available on Sept 20
- September 13, 1983
- The Osborne Computer Corporation declares bankruptcy only two years after producing the first portable computer, the Osborne I.
- September 13, 1999
- Breakaway Day! Earth’s moon was blown out of orbit by a massive nuclear explosion.
- September 14, 1959
- Soviet space probe Luna 2 became the first man-made object to reach the moon as it crashed onto the lunar surface.
- September 16, 1985
- Apple announces iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c. Available on Sept 20
- September 17, 1976
- NASA rolls out the first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, from its assembly facility to a waiting crowd and a few Star Trek actors.
- September 20, 2013
- Apple iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c available.
- September 28, 1925
- Seymour Cray the inventor of the Cray I super computer was born.