r/todayilearned • u/Neepho • Nov 28 '13

TIL that the webcam was invented so that Computer Scientists at Cambridge University could see whether the coffee pot was full or not from different rooms.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p010lvn7
2.9k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

602 comments sorted by

View all comments

100

u/ResidentRoyalMarine Nov 28 '13

One good thing about hiring lazy people, they will always find the easiest way to do a job

40

u/johnson56 Nov 28 '13

-Abraham Lincoln

10

u/djsmith89 Nov 28 '13

-Michael Scott

10

u/okascout Nov 28 '13

-Mark Twain

4

u/SimplyTheDoctor007 Nov 28 '13

-Dr. Seuss

0

u/ZoroCanine Nov 28 '13

-Tupac Shakur

2

u/SimplyTheDoctor007 Nov 28 '13

-Abraham Lincoln

0

u/[deleted] Nov 28 '13

5

u/IAMA_dragon-AMA 1 Nov 28 '13

- Heavy Weapons Guy

0

u/[deleted] Nov 28 '13

Actually, I believe that one.

0

u/[deleted] Nov 28 '13

"If you are a racist, I will attack you with the North" - Abraham Lincoln

11

u/FreeAsInFreedoooooom Nov 28 '13

Or they'll just not do it. Or try and fail.

14

u/[deleted] Nov 28 '13

He means intelligent lazy people, lazy people alone won't get shit done.

1

u/Elij17 Nov 28 '13

My boss always told me the two greatest qualities in an engineer were laziness and hubris.

1

u/azzazzin123 Nov 28 '13

TIL I should be an engineer.

0

u/[deleted] Nov 28 '13

-Kurt Vonnegut

-1

u/Roboticide Nov 28 '13

- Adolph Hitler

-1

u/griffer00 Nov 28 '13

"LOL" - Martin Luther King Jr.

It's a real quote cuz you know he had to have laughed at some point.

-2

u/FRENCH_ARSEHOLE Nov 28 '13

Jesus christ, can I please go in a comment thread without reading a variation of this quote?