Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, Tauranga, New Zealand (http://boppoly.ac.nz)
Taught Diploma and degree courses in hardware architecture, programming, internet, multimedia and website development
A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called grammar
A personal computer is called a personal computer because it's yours. Anything that runs on that computer, you should have control over.
— Andrew Moss, Microsoft's senior director of technical policy, 2005
The most serious impediment to a lasting archive is the evolution of media, platforms, formats, and the applications that create them. Unique, proprietary, and constantly evolving data formats such as Acrobat-4, MPEG-4, Oracle 8, Quicken 2001, Real G2, and Word 2000 suggest or even guarantee obsolescence.
— Gordon Bell, Senior Researcher in Microsoft's Media Presence Research Group.
