Shepherd Mead quotes

“Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.”
-- Shepherd Mead

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“A women loves you not for the things you do for her, but for the things she does for you.”
-- Shepherd Mead

Source : Shepherd Mead “How to Succeed with Women Without Really Trying”, The Shepherd Mead Estate

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“If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.”
-- Shepherd Mead

Source : Shepherd Mead (1974). “How to Get to the Future Before it Gets to You”

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“How to succeed in business without really trying (title of book)”
-- Shepherd Mead

Source : Title of book (1952)

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“Start young. Throw your arms around ladies knees. As you get older it will get more interesting.”
-- Shepherd Mead

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.”

“I have done scenes as Harvey Two-Face. It's interesting. I won't tell you exactly what we're going for, but I think that I can say that it will use all of today's technology to create this character. He's going to be interesting, and I think that's what makes this character important in the movie-you get to see him as he was before, as in the comic books. Harvey is a very good guy in the comic books. He's judicious. He cares. He's passionate about what he loves and then he turns into this character. So you will see that in this film.”

“They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies…the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. When you're stumped, go to your notes like a wizard to his spellbook. Mash those thoughts together. Extend them in every direction until they meet.”

“Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.”

Source : "Stars Rise at Startup Summer Camp" by Ryan Singel, www.wired.com. September 13, 2005.

“Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?”

“I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.”

Source : "The Accidental Success of Adam Driver". Interview with Alex Morris, www.rollingstone.com. January 20, 2014.

“Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.”

“I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.”

Source : YouTube Channel "Jeff Gonis"/"Alan Kay at OOPSLA 1997 - The computer revolution hasnt happened yet", www.youtube.com. February 11, 2013.

“Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.”

“Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?”