The impostor syndrome, in which competent people find it impossible to believe in their own competence, can be viewed as complementary to the Dunning–Kruger effect, in which incompetent people find it impossible to believe in their own incompetence.
People create programs to direct processes. In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
Teaism: When tea is more than a drink and the tea ceremony is understood and practiced to foster harmony in humanity, promote harmony with nature, discipline the mind, quiet the heart, and attain the purity of enlightenment, the art of tea becomes teaism.
Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.
Jean-Paul Sartre
In fact, next to bombing, rent control seems in many cases to be the most efficient technique so far known for destroying cities.
Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire
I sometimes run a very old version of The Sims to optimize living conditions for two people with busy lives who want to achieve maximum happiness and self actualization. I run simulations of floor-plans and then try to find places that are similar to those floorplans. It took two years to find my current place of residence, and not only is it cheap, but I can run Sims whenever something seems odd in the house. Turns out that an errant chair or a table configuration might cause undue friction and, over time, decrease joy and happiness. It’s difficult to step outside of life and watch it from an isomorphic architecture view in 30x speed, but the Sims allows you to do that. It’s kind of my version of debugging life, and it’s another reason why I have a PC lying around.
Amber Case
(Source: amber.case.usesthis.com)
People keep asking me to join the LinkedIn network, but I’m already part of a network; it’s called the Internet.
Gary McGraw
(Source: blog.jonudell.net)
It’s difficult to be rigorous about whether a machine really ‘knows’, ‘thinks’, etc., because we’re hard put to define these things. We understand human mental processes only slightly better than a fish understands swimming.
John McCarthy
(Source: en.wikiquote.org)
I have no issue with those who do something useful, produce value, and make 100 times more money than me. I have many issues with those who produce nothing, destroy value, make others homeless and poor, scam the entire world, and make 10000 times more money than me. Those must go, which the insane system that makes their scams possible.
Giulio Prisco
(Source: ieet.org)
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
Elizabeth Stone
The last good thing written in C was Schubert’s Ninth Symphony.
Haskell Weekly News
Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless print is another second off your life. Don’t you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can’t think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you’re supposed to read? Do you think every thing you’re supposed to think? Buy what you’re told to want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a a fight. Prove you’re alive. If you don’t claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned.
Chuck Palahniuk
Learning is brain damage. I’ve spent the last 18 to 20 years unlearning the things I learned in my Ph.D. studies.
Unix and C are the ultimate computer viruses.
Richard P. Gabriel in The Rise of Worse is Better
