"Quotes"
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"Great Quotes for all Occasions"
I found myself being passed "too many good quotes", I needed a "dedicated to quotes" page! I'm now working to sort them into logical categories, in my limited free time! 1. Social 2. Misc 3. Political 4. Humorous 5. "Stupid Real-Life" 6. Quotes: Spanoudi Link provided by: Paul Tynan, Geac 7. Quotes: Jamiem Link provided by: Paul Tynan, Geac 8. Tech Quotes New Category 9. ZMEDIA Quotes, Comedy & More ! 10. Irish Quotes, Curses, More!
_________________________________________________Social Statements
"I want to go on living even after my death, and therefore I am grateful to God for giving me this gift, this possibility of developing myself and of writing, of expressing all that is in me". - Ann Frank, (... a child who died in a Nazi Concentration Camp - leaving history am incredibly touching diary documenting her final days...).
"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus". - Rev. Martin Luthor King Jr.
"If everyone lit just one little candle - what a bright world
this would be"
- TV Theme Song
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"To achieve and maintain universal access to basic education, health care... food... clean water... would cost roughly 40 billion dollars a year. That amounts to less than four percent of the combined wealth of the 255 richest people in the world". - Claudia Ciano-Boyce
"The United Nations estimates that it would cost 6 billion dollars to provide basic education for every child in the world. Americans spend eight billion dollars a year on costmetics.... We have succeeded technologically but have failed as humans". - Claudia Ciano-Boyce
"So, what are all the wealthy people doing today? Screaming that they deserve larger tax cuts!". - Gardner Davis
"The wealthy are always pressing to cut taxes (meaning cut their taxes,
while proposing symbolic returns to the middle class, so they can
advertise this as other than a break targeted to them). Why not instead
reduce the deficit? Is that not of a common importance, to all of us?
- Mark G. Davis
"For generations, the Agriculture Deparment left decisions about who got federal loans in the hands of Farm Service Agencies, or local committees (including the deep South)... Blacks generally were forced to get commercial loans, at high rates, with foreclosures coming at a ruthless rate... In 1920 blacks owned more than 14 percent of the U.S. farms... by 1992 only 1 percent, and the number has continued to dwindle". - Carl Rowan
"We, the people? Where are all the Asians, the Hispanics, the women, ....
the diversity... giving meaning to "we, the people"? The ballot box is our
privilige and our responsibility... the price of liberty is eternal vigilance".
- Sally Baldwin
"Spirit is the force within and around us that moves us to the highest expression of our nature as human beings". - Jewel / Songwriter)
"You always feel good when you give to others".
- Richard Carlson
"Don't allow past problems and future concerns dominate our present
moments. Without patience, life is extremely frustrating".
- Richard Carlson
"No one can win approval from everyone he meets".
- Richard Carlson
"Most of the bigger problems of the world might be easily solved - except for one little fact of life... Too many of our politicans are not even slightly motivated to solving others problems, instead they are dedicated to catering to the wealthy, and special interests. Jimmy Carter learned 'why not the best?', it is because so many are not interested the good of anyone - except their own immediate pocket. Greed is often the basis behind Wars, and most other misery if life..." - Mark G. Davis
"People measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is... nothing can bring you peace but yourself". - Ralph Waldo Emmerson
"Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?". - Bertrand Russell "The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it is unknown and it's plain sailing". - John Lennon (the Beatles)
"Wherever you go, there you are (you can't avoid life, deal with it!). - Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn
"Don't sweat the small stuff, it's all small stuff".
- Richard Carlson (Author)
"I wish I could know what my life might have been like if I had lived it without alcohol". - W.C. Fields (On his death bed)
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them". - Albert Einstein (Click for Einstein)
"Excellence is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle Provided by: Barbara Sutton
"Nothing ventured, nothing gained". - Author Unknown
"There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it". - Diana Trilling
"Some people make things happen, some people watch things happen, and some people say what happened. Be in the first category". - Casey Stengel
"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have all ready mastered, you will never grow". - Author Unknown
"There is no progress without resistance". - Dr. Laura Schlessinger
"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific". - Lily Tomlin (Humorous Quote) * Provided by: Paul Winget
"You know, sooner or later everybody gets hurt by life... There's no way to avoid it! But it's the ones who bounce back who make it interesting". - Crankshaft (Newspaper Comic Strip)
"A bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to make the turn". - Author Unknown
"It ain't over until it's over" - Yogi Berra
"It takes five years to develop a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years". - Ross Perot
"During the Gulf War, 10,000 men and women would instantly respond to my instruction. Two weeks ago, I called for a plumber and am still waiting for one to arrive...". - Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
"All roads lead back to demographics". - Joes Roth, Walt Disney Studios (Equally applicable to "politics" & "marketing" as it is to the "television" and movie "industries" - it's all "Show biz"!)
"I believe the new trends include the requirement on the part of the customer that the vehicle will work". - Sir Graham Day
"If I can't smoke and drink, I'll have a nervous breakdown..." (Typically pathetic editorial remark against having smoking bans in public places) - Source remains nameless!
"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own." - Senator Everett Dirkson <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><<><><><><><><><>
Next (5) Quotes were by; Brian Dyson, CEO of Coca Cola:
"Don't set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you".
"The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly".
"Don't forget that a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated".
"Life is not a race, but a journey".
"Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is Mystery, Today is a gift (that's why we call it - "the Present")".
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"Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac". - George Carlin * Provided by: Paul Winget
(Oct 14, 1899) "The Literary Digest predicts a dim future for the horseless carriage (the automobile), it will never come into as common use as the bicycle"."What we can see is only a small percentage of what is possible...."
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do".
- Johann von Goethe
"We are living in the future. I'll tell you how I know, I read it in
the paper
15 years ago".
- John Prine
"I think that
I, along with other writers, can make great
changes in our world because
of the power of sound and image
that is often as real to
people as their own lives".
- Eugene Wesley
Roddenberry
("Gene Roddenberry", Star Trek Creator)
"It is also interesting to note
that Star Trek was cancelled three months before
the moon landing...".
- Eugene Wesley Roddenberry
("Gene Roddenberry" - Star Trek)
"Without good writing, there isn't good television. And there aren't
that many
good writers to
go around".
- Eugene Wesley Roddenberry
("Gene Roddenberry" - Star Trek)
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MISC
(Currently Uncategorized):"Has anyone ever said you look just like Walter Cronkite, before he died? Actually, Cronkite was a little thinner". - An older woman's ramblings to an amused Walter Cronkite!
"Sandra Bernhard's third book would seem to establish her as something of an author, unless quality or content or redeeming social value are used as criteria...". - Robert D. Paar (Book Reviews)
"There never was a good war or a bad peace". - Benjamin Franklin
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country". - Words we all remember from President John F. Kennedy
"You see one Redwood Tree, you've seen them all". - Ronald Reagan
"I guess I am an optimist, but a cautious one. It's my mother saying People are bascially good, and my father saying There are still those who would throw you under a bus for a nickel". - Robin Williams
"Our government is as representative of our interests as we have worked to make it". How should we grade ourselves on that job? - Mark G. Davis
"I like to write the conclusion of my argument first. It helps me me filter out stuff that doesn't directly relate to my main point". - Tom Foltz, Re: Effective Writing
"Just 11,542 out of 77,743 registered voters went to the last primary to vote in Springfield, for a turnout of 14.8 percent. That's Pathetic". - Election Comission Secretary James Sullivan (Sept 98).
What percent of residents even bothered to be part of the voters who registered? We can complain Western Ma is not getting enough of a voice in Boston. When only 14.8 percent of voting age public showed at Sept98 polls (and several important and hotly contested races were occuring) - how is it any wonder that our government is "not always reponsive" to our interests? - Mark G. Davis
"We have no right to dictate through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness the future of our children and our children's children. There has been enough destruction, enough death, enough waste". - Jordanian King Hussein (Oct 1998)
"The strength of the economy and its competition are related. Rough and tumble competition makes our economy strong". - Joel Klein, Re: Antitrust Laws
"Time heals all wounds? That's a great phrase, but when a monster murders your child, the wound never heals.... I'm trying to put legal pressure on O.J. Simpson to pay at least some of the $33.5 million judgement in the civil suit... O.J. has fraudulently conveyed income to others to avoid paying his judgement". - Fred Goldman (Oct 1998)
"Juries seldom convict someone the like - no matter what the facts". - Clarence Darrow
"Early intervention in bullying is essential in preventing behaviors that can lead to injury or criminal actions". - Richard Hazler
"The course of Presidents from George Washington to Ulysses S. Grant disproved the theory of evolution...". - Mark Twain
Numerous "Albert Einstein" Quotes!
5 really excellent quotes, as provided by - Mr. Paul Tynan of Geac;
Alan Kay; "The best way to predict the future is to invent it".
Olin Miller; "You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do".
Tallulah Bankhead; "Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it".
Abraham Lincoln; "Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally".
Thomas Alva Edison; "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work".
- More Quotes -
Quantum Leap (TV Show); "If we taught our kids to say they are human instead of black, yellow, white or red, then maybe one's race wouldn't matter?".
Abraham Lincoln; "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing".
Vidal Sassoon - "The only place where success comes before hard work is in the dictionary".
Mother Teresa (Unborn get no sympathy) - "The abortion culture cheapens human life (and is a) ...debasing of the uniqueness of human beings".
John Muir - "The power of imagination makes us infinite".
Napolean Bonaparte - "Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go...".
Sir William Osler - "The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow".
Woodrow Wilson - (Re: Vision & Perseverance) "We grow by dreams... some of us let these dreams die, ...others nourish...them...through bad days till they bring them to light... (sincerely hope your dreams come true)".
"Smile my
friend, today is a new day, Yesterday is past and gone....
So give the world the best you
have to offer today.
Then you will be ready for
tomorrow..."
- Mi Sun
"Why
was government instituted at all? Because the dictates of men will
not conform to the dictates of
reason and justice without restraint".
- Alexander Hamilton
"Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?"
- Rose Kennedy
"Bigotry has no head, and cannot think; no heart, and cannot
feel"
- Daniel O'Connell
"I don't mind stating what the opposing views are".
- Ben Swan (Talk Show Host & Politician)
"The Mass Cannibus Reform Coalition is a group of losers in society
left over from the 60's, who believes society
needs just one more thing
to screw it up even further...".
- Gary LaPierre, WBZ Radio
"Winning has become more important than doing justice".
- Alan Dershowitz (Re: Legal Ethics)
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Political (non-Clinton)
The first 2 quotes on Social Security are Great - I intend to eventually put some "really depressing" (but undeniable) statistics on a page to illustrate what is really happening... (For the benefit of Mass Residents, also want to insert a segment on the finances for the 11 Billion Dollar "Big Dig" - it is hitting our Central Artery, for sure!)
"How can (anyone) say (there is a) budget surplus? The government has borrowed (stolen?) from the Social Security Trust Fund to create the appearance of a surplus... Funds ... are spent as though they don't belong to Social Security.... Unfortunately, everyone in Washington is too busy trying to take credit for the surplus... (they say) we had a budget surplus of $70 billion in... 1998, while at the same time the national debt continued to increase. About 15% of the most recent federal budget went to interest on the national debt. That's like running up a huge bill on a credit card and paying the minimum payment each month..." - Tom Kubilius
"The Social Security Administration (SSA) collects taxes on worker's
incomes. SSA gives it to the Treasury Department in return for
special bonds.... it is spent. It's gone... When Social Security wants to
redeem these over $2 trillion in special bonds, where is the Treasury
going to get the money?"
- Leo Zakowski
"...both major political parties extol saving Social Security as one of their highest priorities. I believe the first and simplest step toward an obvious solutions is to enact legislation to remove Social Security... from the general revenues of the federal budget (AMEN !!!). This would prevent the temptation to raid Social Security receipts to pay the general expenses of the federal government. The accumulating Social Security Trust Fund proceeds could then be put into investments with higher yields... This also would encourage a public understanding that we don't really have a budget surplus to spend.... faced with this reality .. we might approach new plans for spending with some honesty". - Glenn Laedtke
"The surplus is a hoax... the surplus everyone talks about all ready
belongs to social security already. In 1983 the (Alan) Greenspan
commission... proposed... to make certain this reserve would not be
spent... recommended that Social Security be accounted for outside
of the annual budget...
Congress has already spent the Social Security reserves for other
things. As a result, the Social Security account is $730 billion in the red.
To save Social Security, we must first stop looting it for spending
programs or tax cuts..."
- Ernest F. Hollings
"The unfunded liability of the Social Security ssytem is twice as large as our national debt and exceeds the combined cost of all the wars fought in our nation's history". - Sen Phil Gramm & Pete Domenici (The push to "privatize" Social Security as a "Solution" is more of a push to lose all responsibility for correcting the system, and place the known liabilities - elsewhere. The government should fix that mess because 1) they have the most resources, and 2) they caused it! An unprecedented Sr. Citizen disaster is waiting to happen. The problems are greed, lack of conscience, and no sense of responsibility to anyone else. The wealthy would NOT get hurt by this sellout - but others will be seriously impacted. Q: Who's to blame, if we don't yell out, today?)
To quote Miles Benson of Newhouse News, when outlining "all the different expert appraisals" of Social Security; "They can't all be right"... On those words, one cannot possibly disagree!!!
Two days following President Clinton's 01/19/1999 State of the Union Address, the Union News ran a Editorial Opinion. Below are selected highlights; **************************************** "Chief among (Clinton's proposals was) to shore up Social Security by investing (only) 15 percent of the fund's reserves in the stock market.... Such a modest investment approach will help maximize returns while helping to ensure that the fund remains safe... State and local government pension plans already invest heavily - and very successfully... Social Security funds would be a drop in the bucket of the vast stock market, accounting for only 4 percent of the total invested on Wall Street... (Clinton's proposal also) contains provisions for voluntary retirement savings accounts for the middle and low income worker's deposits based on their incomes (and providing for matching funds on deposit!)... (Gotta love this quote:) Social Security should act as a hedge against Ralph Kramdenesque mentality many Americans have (and govt. theft ?). ... $2 trillion of the surplus to reduce the national debt... By reducing the debt, the plan should indirectly strengthen Social Security while bolstering the fiscal standing of the nation.
(Even if not perfect...) the White House plan is a start... Congress must restart the engine of compromise that runs American democracy, lest the federal government remain stalled as Social Security heads for crisis".
(And what about the financial burdens we will be imposing on the next generation - if we don't address this better, today? We need to graduate from debt is only on paper "Reaganomics", and practice "Economics" while there is still time enough to fix the problem!!! - Mark)
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"We hear these days much about men worth $1 billion and more dollars, and more dollars, and there are dozens of them.... If beginning the day Christ died, $1,000 every day were put aside, one would not yet have raised $1 billion". - William F. Buckley Jr. (None of above, of course, would ever occur at the misery of others! With a few exceptions, the super rich proudly like to boast that they are "worth" that much - and more!!! This is a true sickness, hoarding more than they could spend in 100 lifetimes. They are driven to ruthless means to try and acquire more & more. Instead of contributing anything at all back - which could positively, and tremendously enhance the quality of life for others, they lack any human concerns, at all. The world exists simply for their power games. Dominate, run as much as possible, acquire even more wealth... Lets work to get em' some additional tax breaks!!!).
Campaign Finance Reform: - William F. Buckley Jr. has posed different ideas, each which "might have" merit. While I can't agree with his final suggestion (let them just spend everything they want, after he points out currently it costs $55,000 a day to run - and it is just the wealthy and politically endorsed favorites in the game...), below is a sane proposal which has bounced around for a little too long - without results!!!;
"You shouldn't have to spend 103 nights in Iowa in order to communicate to Iowa voters what you... are thinking.... Require television stations, when brought in for license renewal, to yield, free of charge, X number of hours for political candidates". - William F. Buckley Jr.
"Behind the closed doors of the U.N. Security Council, three of America's major partners are closing fast on their goal; to give Saddam Hussein victory in the war he lost eight years ago... France, Russia and China - has worked long at those closed meeting to kill the oil embargo against Iraq, the only barrier that prevents Saddam from again building arsenals of nuclear, chemical and bacteriological weapons.... U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Anna's praise of Saddam and defensive attitude toward him may come from some concept of peace-making... The United Nations was created to expand freedom on the defeat of Germany, Japan and Italy, not to strengthen other tyrannies or create new ones. Dictatorships hold seats at the United Nations. But their values and interests are contrary and fatal to those on which the United Nations was founded - the preservation and growth of liberty. If the United Nations (lets Saddam return to power) it will have no reason to exist and will leave few to weep at its burial". - Carl Rowan
"When a private agency does badly, it goes out of business. When a public agency does badly, it gets a bigger budget". - Steve Savas
"The Politican's Prayer - Dear Lord, teach us to utter words which
are kind and gentle, for tomorrow we may need to eat those words"!
- Morris ("MO") Udall
"If this law (electric deregulation) is truly about busting up the utility monopolies, then why were the state's largest utilities the ones bankrolling the campaign to save the law?" - Robert Sargent, MassPirg (Oct 98)
"I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 Billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too." - Litchy & Wagner (Quote provided by Paul Tynan)
"You should use the budget surplus to pay off the National Debt. That way our kid's won't get clobbered with our massive bills. Plus, the economy would improve for everyone!. (Politicians reply) Yeah, but what's in it for us?". - Bateman (Political Cartoon)
"Saddam has basically destroyed two generations and is on his way to destroying a third. This is a very dark chapter in Iraqi history". - Robert Pelletreau
"This incredible resource of land, oil, and water properly managed should have made Iraq a great power. But Saddam's blown it". - Richard Murphy
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Humorous
In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run". On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only home run!
May you live
forever,
and may the last words that you hear be mine!
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Here's to you,
and here's to me,
Friends we'll always be!
And if perchance we don't agree,
The heck with you, and here's to me!
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If you want to be
criticized, marry.
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Both your friend and your enemy
think you will never die.
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Political Dictonary
Bozone (noun): "The substance that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer shows little sign of breaking down in the near future".
Dopelar Effect (noun): "The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter - when you come at them rapidly".
Intaxication (noun): "Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to begin with...
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Stupid "Real Life" Quotes !!!
All of us invariably know what we intended
to say, but sometimes our words come
out wrong! Worse yet, if you are a Celebrity or Politician, every
word you ever say is
recorded and tend to return to haunt you. The following excerpts
are from the
funny book; "The 776 Stupidest
Things Ever Said" - by Ross & Kathryn Petras;
1. Things are more like they are now than
they have ever been.
--- President Gerald Ford.
2. Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've
lost a very important part of your life.
--- Brooke
Shields.
3. This is the worst disaster in California
since I was elected.
--- Governor Pat Brown.
4. Pepsi brings your ancestors back from
the grave. *****
--- "Pepsi Comes
Alive"
(As initially mis-translated into Chinese).
5. I suppose you think that on our board
half the directors do the work and the
other half do nothing. As a matter of fact,
gentlemen, the reverse is the case.
---
A CEO
6. I stand by all the misstatements.
--- Dan Quayle.
7. Honest businessmen should be protected
from the unscrupulous consumer.
--- Lester Maddox
(Why Georgia
should not create a Consumer Protection Agency).
8. What really hurts in matters of this
sort is not the fact that they occur, because
overzealous people in campaigns do things that
are wrong. What really hurts is if
you try to cover it up.
---
Richard Nixon
(Pre-Watergate days, Wise
words forgotten).
9. The streets are safe in Philadelphia,
it's only the people who make them unsafe.
--- Frank Rizzo.
10. Outside of the killings, Washington has
one of the lowest crime rates...
--- Marion Bradley.
11. That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be
kicked to death by a jackass - and I'm
just the one to do it.
--- John F. Parker
12. Your medical assistance is cancelled
beginning 9/24/84 because of your death.
--- Letter from Iowa Department of Human Services.
13. Facts are stupid things.
---
Ronald Reagan, misquote of John Adams.
14. My fellow Americans, I've signed
legislation that will outlaw Russia forever.
We begin bombing in five minutes.
***** Click
for Sound byte
---
Ronald Reagan
(Joking into a mike, unaware he was live broadcasting).
The next gem happens to be one
of my all time favorites;
"Only the little people pay taxes".
--- Leona Helmsley
(Later convicted in same year for nonpayment of taxes).
"I first heard of DSL in
1993. There were claims made that 500k service would be
available universally by the end of 1994!... I
recall discussing this with an AT&T
researcher who believed it would revolutionize
data transmissions and sweep the
nation that year... A perfect example of small-time gouging
is the modem and
wiring that were sent to me... there was a
non-so-hidden shipping and handling
charge of over $80... When I complained to the
guy coordinating my site, he said,
"Well,
this is designed to go into small businesses.They usually don't object to
these kinds of charges"...
- John C. Dvorak (Feb 2, 1999 PC Magazine)
"Most
observers and even company insiders have finally realized that the government
is never going to stop pursuing Microsoft until it
changes it's way of doing business...
If every tale of
Microsoft's greedy behavior were told, the company would never get
out of court...
In a 15 year period, Gates has accumulated more wealth than the British
monarcy, which has been robbing the world and its
own people since the twelfth
century... there is something wrong with this
picture...
There's good reason to argue that Windows has become an "essential
utility"
the government should control. Gas and electric companies were originally
private... In a culture where weatlh is idolized
like a God and where the rich can do
no wrong (and if they do, buy their way out), this
move is too gutsy... for our...
government".
- John C. Dvorak (Feb 2, 1999 PC Magazine)
"... the Internet has change computing... It is changing the ways we
communicate,
get information... Communication is the core of the
Internet... The Internet makes
a nearly infinite amount of information available
for a very small price, and lets us
get it very quickly... not just us on the leading
edge... Amazon.com was the first that
fully understood how any business that has a huge
database can deliver those
products more efficiently without the overhead of
physical storefronts. For things
like books and records, the Internet offers a much
larger selection, and this is
expanding into many other areas... offering better
services and better prices..
From how we shop to how we learn, communicate, and
get entertained, the Internet
is changing everything".
- Michael J. Miller, Editor in Chief of PC Magazine
(Memo: Amazon.com was one
of several early pioneers, but Yahoo was easily the
first site realizing the net's potentials!)
Welcome Your Feedback, do
visit again!
Mark G. Davis
