These are people who thought a lot about religion,” he said. “They’re not indifferent. They care about it.
These are people who thought a lot about religion,” he said. “They’re not indifferent. They care about it.
There is no design without discipline.
There is no discipline without intelligence.
There are consequences to one’s actions. And there certainly would be consequences to wrong actions. Dark they would be, and inescapable.
Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature
π is wrong. It’s time to set things right.
Design is the process of gradually applying constraints until an elegant solution remains.
Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.
The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought ‘42 will do’ I typed it out. End of story.
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.
Mensus eram coelos, nunc terrae metior umbras
Mens coelestis erat, corporis umbra iacet.
For web designers, there are four keys to surviving bad economic times: do good work, charge a fair price, lower your overhead, and be sure you are communicating with your client.
People say that if you play Microsoft CD’s backwards, you hear satanic things, but that’s nothing, because if you play them forwards, they install Windows.
In a world without fences and walls, who needs Gates and Windows?
Passwords are like underwear. You shouldn’t leave them out where people can see them. You should change them regularly. And you shouldn’t loan them out to strangers.
Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity.
The code that is the hardest to debug is the code that you know cannot possibly be wrong.
I spent a minute looking at my own code by accident. I was thinking “What the hell is this guy doing?”
As a development process, chaos does not scale well.
Well It looks like an ID 10T Error
SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue > 0
- returned 0 results
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To be or not to be.
– Shakespeare
To do is to be.
– Nietzsche
To be is to do.
– Sartre
Do be do be do.
– Sinatra
A worldwide survey was conducted by the UN.
The only question asked was: “Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?”The survey was a huge failure…
In Africa they didn’t know what “food” meant.
In Eastern Europe they didn’t know what “honest” meant.
In Western Europe they didn’t know what “shortage” meant.
In China they didn’t know what “opinion” meant.
In the Middle East they didn’t know what “solution” meant.
In South America they didn’t know what “please” meant.
And in the USA they didn’t know what “the rest of the world” meant
Today, we mourn the passing of an old friend by the name of Common Sense.
Common Sense lived a long life, but died from heart failure at the brink of the Millennium. No one really knows how old he was since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He selflessly devoted his life to service in schools; hospitals, homes, factories and offices, helping folks get jobs done without fanfare and foolishness.
For decades, petty rules, silly laws and frivolous lawsuits held no power over Common Sense. He was credited with cultivating such valued lessons as to know when to come in from rain, the early bird gets the worm and life isn’t always fair.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don’t spend more than you earn), reliable parenting strategies (the adults are in charge, not the kids), and it’s okay to come in second.
A veteran of the Industrial Revolution, the Great Depression, and the Technological Revolution, Common Sense survived cultural and educational trends including feminism, body piercing, whole language and new math.
But his health declined when he became infected with the “if-it-only-helps-one-person-it’s-worth-it” virus. In recent decades, his waning strength proved no match for the ravages of overbearing federal legislation.
He watched in pain as good people became ruled by self-seeking lawyers and enlightened auditors. His health rapidly deteriorated when schools endlessly implemented zero tolerance policies; when reports were heard of six year old boys charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; when a teen was suspended for taking a swig of mouthwash after lunch; when a teacher was fired for reprimanding an unruly student. It declined even dramather when schools had to get parental consent to administer aspirin to a student but couldn’t inform the parent when a female student is pregnant or wants an abortion.
