brainstorms

Monday July 25, 2005

recent good quotes

mom's sleeping away while bats flutter by! -- eren yigit

entropy grinds down the unweary. -- david brin [kiln people]

if it's broken, adding crypto just makes it broken and hidden. -- marcus j ranum

Real time programming is kind of like being a batter where the pitcher throws the balls continuously. And instead of a catcher behind the home plate you have a sleeping troll who will eat you if a ball gets through and hits him. -- james gosling

the past has a vote, but not a veto. -- mordecai m. kaplan [as quoted by matt young]

when opportunity knocks, the entrepreneur is always home. -- francis wheen

the only difference between kitsch and beautiful is time. -- catherine willows [CSI]

i have learned that arguments, no matter how watertight, often fall on deaf ears. -- daniel dennett [darwin's dangerous idea]

the scepticism i advocate amounts to this: (1) that when the experts are agreed, the opposite opinion cannot be held to be certain; (2) that when they are not agreed, no opinion can be regarded as certain... and (3) that when they all hold that no sufficient grounds for a positive opinion exist, the ordinary man would do well to suspend his judgement. -- bertrand russell [on the value of scepticism]

naps are completely underestimated and are an essential part of the creative process. -- laura zeck [quoted in 401 design meditations]

[image on the right dedicated to christopher alexander, in appreciation of his nature of order, an essay on the art of building and the nature of the universe, vol. 1]