Thursday, July 12, 2007

Quote: William H. Gascoyne

"I’m not convinced that faith can move mountains, but I’ve seen what it can do to skyscrapers."

14 comments:

  1. You just made my coworker and me laugh out loud with this quote, which I saw on Popurls.com.

    Bravo, you sick sick person!

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  2. Just curious, who is William H. Gascoyne?
    It's a very quotable quote but I'd like to know a little about the author.

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  3. a simple google search would do the trick, instead of asking stupid questions. that's what it's there for.

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  4. FYI, Jordan, a simple Google search showed that many bloggers liked this quote but there doesn't seem to be any reference to an actual person.

    I'll restrain myself from returning sarcasm in kind.

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  5. Actually, Googling doesn't help much. Lots of references to him, but no clearer idea of who he is.

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  6. A Google search came up with this:

    I’m not convinced that faith can move mountains, but I’ve seen what it can do to skyscrapers. -William H. Gascoyne, “One-liners,” Op/Ed section, San Jose Mercury, Jan. 20, 2004

    So maybe he's just some guy.

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  7. He's not just "some guy"? He's some guy with a cool quote!

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  8. Could be this guy:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Rupert_Gascoyne-Cecil

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  9. Given that Lord (Rupert Ernest) William Gascoyne-Cecil was born in 1863, I find that unlikely.

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  10. FYI Jordan: you don't have many friends, do you?

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  11. Seems he's an engineer down in Silicon Valley. Here's his site:

    http://www.billgascoyne.name/cgi-bin/grquote4.pl?check=rq&call=3706

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  12. JimmyR is dabomb dude!

    RT
    www.anonymize.tk

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  13. Jimmyr is tha sheet. This quote aint so bad either.

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  14. JimmyR is a douche-bag spammer, and the site is a script-kiddie wet dream. DO NOT VISIT WITHOUT FIREFOX WITH NOSCRIPT.

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