life is about growing up and not understanding things. -- eren yigit (age 6)
bloat is the enemy of promise. sadly, like supersized servings of greasy junk food, bloat sells. -- damien broderick
wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is. -- terry pratchett
practice doesn't make perfect, no matter what they say, but it sharpens our perception and improves our performance. -- david vestal
law and philosophy can't trump engineering. -- bruce sterling
audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure. -- edward r. tufte
perl is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the problems of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums. -- unknown
preoccupation with self is the greatest barrier to seeing, and the hardest one to break.-- freeman patterson
Waste indicates that you lack understanding, incorrect indicates that you lack attention to detail. -- eric naggum
an approximate answer to the right question is worth a great deal more than a precise answer to the wrong question. -- john tukey (1915-2000)
a six-sigma performance is, in fact, so unlikely that the tables in most statistics texts don't even include values for it. -- john allen paulos
a poorly made picture that moves us is worth hundreds of empty masterpieces of technique. -- david vestal
