Algumas citações

"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose to obtain the largest amount of feathers, with the least possible amount of hissing."

(Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV's treasurer )

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man adapts the world to him. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

(George Bernard Shaw)

"Knowledge workers, unlike manufacturing workers, own the means of production"

(Peter F. Drucker)

"A verdadeira dificuldade não está em se aceitar idéias novas, mas em se livrar das idéias antigas."

(John Maynard Keynes)

"A filosofia consiste no abuso sistemático de uma linguagem inventada exatamente para este fim. "

(Décio Krause)

"If it should ever turn out that the basic logics of a machine designed for the numerical solution of differential equations coincide with the logics of a machine intended to make bills for a department store, I would regard this as the most amazing coincidence that I have ever encountered. "

(Howard Atkins, 1956, Computer pioneer)

"A Internet está mais próxima da conspiração enquanto a televisão é o meio adequado para a propaganda. "

(Ester Dyson)

"The PC era has, in its own, often infuriating way, been a miracle of productivity and creativity. But the next era, the era of pervasive computing, should be infinitely more so. "

(The Economist, Sep. 12th - 18th , 1998)

"Empresa privada é aquela que o governo controla; empresa pública é aquela que ninguém controla"

(Roberto Campos)

"Um banco é um lugar que empresta um guarda-chuva quando o tempo está bom e pede de volta quando começa a chover."

(Robert Frost)

"Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it."

(Publius Secundus, 1st B)