Apr. 5th, 2011

I'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 :-)

1The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration. Confucius
2A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. Frank Herbert
3In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior. Jon Postel
4You must unlearn what you have learned. Yoda
5When 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
6Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable. Ralph Jackson
7I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. Richard Feynman
8A test that reveals a bug has succeeded, not failed. Boris Beizer
9The 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
10A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. Jerry Seinfield
11Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo. Robert Byrne

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