Author: Dr Wingnut
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Living in a hardware vacuum
People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise, the programs that they write will be pretty weird.Donald Knuth, Introduction to Computing Systems (McGraw Hill, 2004)Which isn’t suprising, considering how much people think software engineers are weird to begin with.
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Memory loss
To be really effective, this survey question should have also included a choice for “I forget.”
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Vision
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.Warren Buffett
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Plan ahead – A Public Service Announcement
Living Will Date ___________I, _________________________ (fill in the blank), being of sound mind and body, do not wish to be kept alive indefinitely by artificial means.Under no circumstances should my fate be put in the hands of peckerwood politicians who couldn’t pass ninth-grade biology if their lives depended on it.If a reasonable amount of time…
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Moving forward
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” You must do the thing you think you cannot do.Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 –…
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What Religion is Your Bra?
A man walked into the ladies department of a Macy’s and shyly walked up to the woman behind the counter and said, “I’d like to buy a bra for my wife.What type of bra?” asked the clerk.Type?” inquires the man, “There’s more than one type?Look around,” said the saleslady, as she showed a sea of…