randomice.net » Quote http://www.randomice.net by Enrico Schnepel Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:58:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 three planets http://www.randomice.net/2010/01/three-planets/ http://www.randomice.net/2010/01/three-planets/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:36:55 +0000 Enrico Schnepel http://www.randomice.net/?p=254

If all people would live on earth as much as the Germans, we would need the resources of three planets.

Said in the German broadcast Monitor (07.01.2010).

Germans take much resources — and there are other countries “outperforming” us. Nevertheless every well situated people have to make at least one short step towards a sustainable life.

We are the World!

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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Said by Rich Cook.

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A typical “tweet” is highly compressed irrelevance – 140 characters the world don’t need but served in real time.

(freely translated from German)
by Ulf J. Froitzheim in Technology Review, 3/2009, P. 86

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