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Apr. 5th, 2011 10:36 amI'm slogging through a couple of books at work. One of them is merely OK as a tech book, but it has nice chapter epigraphs :-)
1 | The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration. | Confucius |
2 | A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. | Frank Herbert |
3 | In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior. | Jon Postel |
4 | You must unlearn what you have learned. | Yoda |
5 | When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only of how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. | Buckminster Fuller |
6 | Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable. | Ralph Jackson |
7 | I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. | Richard Feynman |
8 | A test that reveals a bug has succeeded, not failed. | Boris Beizer |
9 | The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work. | John von Neumann |
10 | A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. | Jerry Seinfield |
11 | Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo. | Robert Byrne |