Interesting Quotes

"Luck is probability taken personally.” - Chip Denman (via Penn Jillette and Annie Duke)

"Commenting your code is like cleaning your bathroom - you never want to do it, but it really does create a more pleasant experience for you and your guests." - Ryan Campbell

"Almost everything that you succeed at looks easy in retrospect." - Luis Sordo Vieira (via @strogatz)

"When one teaches, two learn." - Robert Heinlein

"Nice library. Is one of these a trick book?"

"How so?"

"Like you pull it off the shelf and a hidden door opens."

"Oh. Yeah, all of them." - @ASmallFiction

"Read what you love until you love to read." - @naval

Quotes: Shower Thoughts

I really enjoy some of the observational/insight tweets that "ShowerThoughts" echoes from /r/showerthoughts. Here are some relatively recent ones:

Your DNA contains millions of years worth of software updates. 

At home it’s weird for two people to eat two different things for dinner but at a restaurant it’s weird to order the same thing. 

When people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small, but barely anyone in the present really thinks that they can radically change the future by doing something small. 

Shrek is a movie about loving yourself despite your physical appearance, all the while making fun of Lord Farquaad for being short. 

It’s weird that “you’re shit” and “you ain’t shit” are both insults, but “you’re the shit” is a complement. 

Cassettes had side A and side B, therefore it was kind of logical its succesor would be the CD. 

The stock market basically rewards people for liking something before it was cool. 

Our urge to sing along to songs we hear is basically the same thing as wolves howling when they hear a howl. 

I watched my dog chase his tail for 10 minutes and thought “Wow, dogs are so easily entertained”. Then I realized I just watched my dog chase his tail for 10 minutes.

Quotes

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung

The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.

Alan Cooper

Saving money is a non-socially-rewarded, non-observable, 1 player game. Spending money is a socially rewarded, observable, multiplayer game

Eric Jorgenson

Academic life is 10% what happens to you, and 99% making it count for multiple sections on your CV.

Shit Academics Say

"Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew."

Peter Landin

"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"

Abraham Lincoln