From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 28 02:30:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA04672 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 02:30:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA04629 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 02:29:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id LAA09988; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 11:29:43 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 11:29:42 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: David Kelly Cc: Greg Lehey , Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: IBM marketing (was: Protected mode instructions which reduce to noop.) References: <199804280015.TAA11332@nospam.hiwaay.net> Organization: Gutteklubben Terrasse / KRST / PUMS / YASMW X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 28 Apr 1998 11:29:40 +0200 In-Reply-To: David Kelly's message of "Mon, 27 Apr 1998 19:15:51 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Kelly writes: > I saw a really good quote today. Appears I'll have to look it up because > I can't remember it and the wording really makes it worthwhile. But the > gist of it stated "the worst error of modern times is that success is > equated with excellence." Suggesting the successful are not necessarily > excellent. ...and the excellent are not necessarily successful, which is why Bill Gates is the richest man in the world while the FreeBSD project has to beg people for donations. -- Noone else has a .sig like this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message