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Application

domi — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:54:00 +0000

I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.

Leo Burnett

Don’t Repeat Yourself

domi — Wed, 09 May 2007 09:19:00 +0000

It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.

Nathaniel Borenstein

Freedom to Act

domi — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:02:00 +0000

One way to create security is not worrying about screwing things up

David Allen

I’ll pay for you gladly

domi — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:55:00 +0000

There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch

Robert Heinlein

In the long-run, there’s just another short-run

domi — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:38:00 +0000

Someone once said about partisan analysts that they use economic data the way a drunkard uses a lamppost: for support rather than illumination. Or as Disraeli put it, there are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Paul Krugman

All models are wrong but some are useful

domi — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:36:00 +0000

The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.

A. Whitehead

How to do research

domi — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:30:00 +0000

Everything has been thought before, but the problem is to think of it again.

Goethe

Reduced to the Max

domi — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:04:00 +0000

I will be brief. Nor nearly as brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the World’s shortest speech.
He said: “I will be so brief I have already finished,” and he sad down.

E. O. Wilson

Das Nichtverstehen

domi — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:01:00 +0000

Das Nichtverstehen kommt meistens nicht vom Mangel an Verstande, sondern am Mangel von Sinn.

Friedrich Schlegel

Blue Connections

domi — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:36:00 +0000

The history of mathematics is largely absent from the “culture” of educated public, historians and mathematicians included… Like the rainbow, mathematics may be admired, but – especially among intellectuals – it must be kept at a distance, away from real life and polite conversation.

Ivor Grattan-Guinness