7.09.2024

quotes found in my notebooks

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