B. Kevin Turner Quotes

That's the great thing about incubating something on the web: you have the potential to go to other platforms. Every single platform has a different audience that you find.

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.

Yes, I definitely believe that it has some good cross-platform properties. Object orientation was one of the techniques I used to make Python platform independent.

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.

Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually.

So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story.

Everything is cross-platform now. That's part of the reality that we live in - a multifaceted, multimedia world - and I'm delighted to be a part of that.

It's natural to assume Roblox will be on more and more platforms.

Having followed the wireless industry long enough, I can tell you that building and supporting an application for different platforms is as tough as climbing a straight wall of rock.

When it comes to the mobile web, the technology industry seems to be split between two camps - native apps and HTML5 web-based apps.

Betting completely on HTML5 is one of the, if not THE biggest strategic mistake we've made.

I think morality is more important than ever before. As we gain more power, the question of what we do with it becomes more and more crucial, and we are very close to really having divine powers of creation and destruction. The future of the entire ecological system and the future of the whole of life is really now in our hands. And what to do with it is an ethical question and also a scientific question.

The future does not get better by hope, it gets better by plan. And to plan for the future we need goals.

It doesn't help anyone to judge their happiness or career by looking at where others may or may not be. Dad said it best: 'All the time you're looking left and right at other people, you're neglecting what's in front of you.If you focus on looking straight ahead, you can take the odd glance at the future.' He's got a way of saying things sometimes that just puts everything into perspective.

I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.

The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward: the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his; - cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame.

In him I saw my furture In him I saw my friend In him I saw my destiny Both my beginning and end

It is a world of startling possibilities.

It's up to us to save the world for tomorrow: it's up to you and me.

The future has to do with fear. Don't attempt to come up here. Don't attempt to go forward, you were nobody, you are nobody, and you'll always be nothing, so don't even think about coming here because if you do, something awful will happen to you.

As they used to say on Stingray, ‘Anything can happen in the next half hour’. I’ve always tried to live with that thought in mind.

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

While there's life, there is hope.

A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.