Quotes

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. ― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

“The older you get, the more quiet you become. Life humbles you so deeply as you age. You realize how much nonsense you’ve wasted time on.” — Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) November 14, 2019 Adding screenshot in case the account disappears

Experience is what you get when you did not get what you wanted. Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things. They are there to stop the people who do not want it badly enough They are there to stop "the other people" Randy Pausch If you want to watch and listen to a lecture by professor of CMU Computer Science that will teach you things way beyond realms of software engineering, check this video.

Often, scientific "failure" teaches you more than success ... An experiment which gives you a clear answer is not a failure; it can surprise you, though. Failure comes only when an experiment answers no question -- usually because it's been done with ignorance or sloppiness. The true trick in science is to know what question your experiment is truly asking. Gregory Benford Ten Thousand Years of Solitude

My favorite top ten epigrams, for more see http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html 0. One man's constant is another man's variable 1. It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one. 2. If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some. 3. A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing. 4. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. 5. You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.

Thought of the day: ... Too much to learn. Too much bandwidth crowding the channels of communication. We can’t listen fast enough. We’re left standing on our tiptoes all the time Greg Bear, The Darwin's Radio This does not sound very optimistic, which is quite representative. I am down with bad headache, cannot really think straight, spending time sleeping, reading a book (above) and surfing the Web. I found out that I made it to Ottawa Blogger's list and learned a new word: splogger