Less than 10% of the code has to do with the ostensible purpose of the system; the rest deals with input-output, data validation, data structure maintenance, and other housekeeping.
BitWise – David Auerbach
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting
Sun Tzu – The Art of War
Get rid of distractions, such as the internet, your phone, social media, etc. They might be a useful tool every now and then when you’re looking for inspiration, but not when you’re trying to innovate. You can’t have ideas and innovate when you’re constantly engaged with distractions. Give your mind time to roam and wander wherever it wants. Keep a pen and paper nearby and write down those thoughts and ideas when they appear.
Creative inspiration – Build your visual library
We thought we were born bourgeois, but instead we were proletarians dressed a little better. The old story of the field nigger and the house nigger as taught by Malcolm X.
Dormitory neighborhoods of the proletariat, but even the bourgeois city houses are dormitories. Only there are stores…
“Positive energy brings good feelings, and dark energy often means harm. But the destruction in dark energy is also a subtle aspect of construction, like how even forest fires have their benefits. Sometimes enemies are our best teachers, people can learn from their mistakes, destruction sometimes means rebirth.”
Keanu Reeves
“At 3 years old my father abandoned me, I had to change 4 schools because of my dyslexia and in the end I did not graduate. At 23, I lost my best friend, River Phoenix, to an overdose. In 1998 I met the only girl I ever loved. We were expecting a baby girl but at the eighth month she had to have an abortion. 18 months later she died in a car accident. Since then I have avoided serious relationships. My sister is suffering from leukemia and I donated 70% of my Matrix compensation to research. I don’t have a supervilla, I don’t have bodyguards and I don’t dress in boutiques. I still take the metro and I like it a lot.
Because in the end I believe that, despite the tragedies, the virtuous man can shine. No matter what happens in your life, it’s always worth living.”
Keanu Reeves
Do not enter who does not know geometry
Academy of Athens
With these words was admonished those who approached the entrance of the Academy of Athens, the school founded by Plato in Athens.
Instead, our wish is that everyone will enter and remain in proximity to geometry and its sisters; that they will listen to it, look at it, and observe its elegance and beauty.
Good teaching is one-quarter preparation and three-quarters theater.
Galileo Galilei
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
“People think they don‘t understand math, but it‘s all about how you explain it to them. If you ask a drunkard what number is larger, 2/3 or 3/5 , he won‘t be able to tell you. But if you rephrase the question: what is better, 2 bottles of vodka for 3 people or 3 bottles of vodka for 5 people, he will tell you right away: 2 bottles for 3 people, of course.”
– Israel Gelfand, Soviet mathematician. (1913-2009)
“In the United States everyone is an illegal immigrant – everyone except the people in Indian Reservations. This is an immigrant society.”
— Noam Chomsky
(more…)Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not then an article of mere consumption, but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson
(letter to James Madison, 16 September 1821)
If I died and had all this wealth and yachts and all this stuff, would I be as happy as when I laugh? And I thought about pranks I played and jokes I had told and music I would hear that would make me smile, and I came up with my formula that life is about happiness. Happiness equals smiles minus frowns. H = S – F.
Steve Wozniak (Apple co-founder)
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson
Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you’re saying.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you keep trading an apple, you will always have an apple. But the ideas add up all the time.
Prof. R.M.