John Gage Quotes (15 Quotes)

The PlayStation, 300 with a DVD-player and it runs Linux and Java, it's huge. Why would you ever put a PC someplace It breaks all the time. You would spend more time fixing it than teaching (how to use it). These things (the PlayStation consoles) are designed for 12-year-olds and are really powerful.

I can plug in a 80 gigabyte disk and store 16 hours of video on it or up to 500 hours of audio. Now we attach it to a free satellite, slow, trickle charge. We can put anything on the disk you want to know about clean water, latrines and do it in whatever language.

The historical society was a bit upset that they were demolishing the original building but they (the home owners) had been making ongoing renovations and they just weren't going to be able to bring that building up to code. For obvious safety reasons, nursing homes can't be wooden structures anymore they must be built with steel construction. Because of that, as well as many other reasons, the two eventually made an agreement that they would design the new building to have many similar features of the original mansion and then the original would be destroyed. If you look at some of the old pictures I really think that they achieved what they had wanted to do.

It should be a number above 100,000, but under a million.

provides this administration with an opportunity to rethink its misguided wholesale privatization policy.

The American Federation of Government Employees, one of the other unions suing DHS, said the department also did not consult them in making the proposed adjustments. The first time around, DHS and the Office of Personnel Management decided not to listen to what we had to say, ... You think they would have learned their lesson, but I guess not.

Closing down Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune schools won't save taxpayers a significant amount of money now and won't save them any money in the long term,

Each part of the community has to do some different part of it. You would not come to Sun for good taste in designing attractive programs. We can make sure the networking works. All of our partners, meaning all of the high-tech companies in the world, ought to contribute their engineering knowledge.

We had hoped that Judge Collyer's decision would bring all parties involved to the bargaining table.

In this last year for the first time you had agreement amongst all the poor countries that Internet and IT is a fundamental component of development. Two or three years ago you would go to a meeting and people would say 'We don't even have clean water, how can we even think about IT,'

With all the businesses of the world together we can link all of the poor countries, the schools, hospitals and health clinics of the poor countries and get them all on the Net. That helps enormously, for example, in sending information about AIDS.

I just hope DHS takes a step back on this.

The people that make above a dollar a day, under three dollars a day, generally have some electricity. They've got television sets that run on car batteries, or they will have a little generator. Everywhere there is a flicker of a TV screen is a target for putting one of these PlayStation things hooked to a satellite.

Shutting the door on schools that are doing a great job educating the children of military families doesn't make any financial or common sense.

We will use anything that can carry IP packets to get to the poor countries. You can modulate the radio and TV frequencies, use telephone lines or have packets come down via satellite. The Globalstar idea is the result of a conversation in the last week. We're trying to establish the technical feasibility. Can we do all this The answer is yes. But then, the devil is in the details,