brainstorms

Thursday July 13, 2006

gone sailing, photographing...

away on vacation in some corner of egean and mediterranean... my blog will be less active, except for some notes, quotes, haiku, misc.

ı hear jee5 too complex. phew. i cannot wait to read the report when i get back. [no doubt soon thereafter i will want to switch to a boring scheme wannabe for all my work...]

recently noted quotes

software creation is not only time-consuming, it's also much more difficult than i thought it would be. -- donald knuth [theory and practice, III, selected papers on computer science]

In Mercurial, a branch is a repository. Nothing more or less. A repository is a branch. Repeat the soothing mantra. -- mercurial faq

the brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye sees, but in return the eye has agreed to look for what the brain wants. -- daniel gilbert [stumbling on happiness]

the internet, that wonderful tool for bringing us into contact with things that make us wish we could scrub our brains out with dental floss ... -- charlie stross

Sometimes ignorance really is bliss. Especially if it has a vanilla flavour to it. -- tom keats

What would you think of someone who studied economic entities and their interactions in a modern free market economy and insisted that they were, despite a perfectly reasonable and empirically supported Smithian account of their development, the consequence of some all-powerful, detail-obsessed economic law-giver? -- john allen paulos [the mousetrap]

To put it mildly, the public in an age of born-again Rapture, Intelligent Design, miscellaneous guru worship, and do-it-yourself “spirituality” isn’t exactly hungering for an across-the-board application of rational principles. -- frederic crews [from the introduction to follies of the wise]