| Place | Reference or Occasion | Text |
|---|---|---|
| Würzburg, 2023 | programming - logical units | "Do one thing and do it well" |
| Würzburg, 2023 | Bruce Schneier about Heartbleed-Bug of OpenSSL | "Catastrophic is the right word. On the scale of 1 to 10, this is an 11." |
| Würzburg, 2023 | Musk, Elon | "Don't confuse schooling with education. I didn't go to Harvard but the people that work for me did." |
| Würzburg, 2023 | unknown | software sells hardware |
| Würzburg, 2023 | Martin Richards, BCPL-The language and its compiler | "The philosophy of BCPL is not one of the tyrant who thinks he knows best and lays down the law on what is and what is not allowed; rather, BCPL acts more as a servant offering his services to the best of his ability without complaint, even when confronted with apparent nonsense. The programmer is always assumed to know what he is doing and is not hemmed in by petty restrictions." |
| Würzburg, 2023 | from the Film Predator | "If it bleeds – we can kill it." |
| Würzburg, 2023 | Waalkes, Otto | "And out of the chaos a voice spoke to me: Smile and be happy, it could get worse. And I smiled was was happy - and it came worse." |
| Würzburg, 2023 | Waalkes, Otto | If graffiti changed anything, it would be illegal. |
| Würzburg, 2023 | unknown | Consumption of air can be a sign of life - or a warning sign for imminent death. it depends... |
| Würzburg, 2023 | David E. Fisher: A Summer Bright and Terrible. Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005, S. 164–168. | "It was the same with all specialists; they exaggerate the importance of whatever they are working on." |
| Würzburg, 2023 | Kilpatrick, W.H. | "learning by doing" |
| Würzburg, 2023 | Ellie Arroway in the Film Contact | "So if it’s just us … seems like an awful waste of space." |
| Würzburg, 2023 | Wang, Yubo et al. |
"Conclusions: This systematic review and meta-analysis provide evidence that compared
to other dietary strategies, using LCHF with CT cannot induce greater benefits for
lean mass, body fat percentage, body mass, VO2max, and aerobic performance in trained
participants."
Reference |
| Würzburg, 2023 | George Orwell | "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations." |
| Würzburg, 2023 | Böhm, A. M. | "Center of extreme competence" |
| Würzburg, 2023 | Böhm, A. M. | "Extreme competence centering" |
| Würzburg, 2023 | unknown | Notice: If you notice this notice you will notice that this notice is not worth reading. |
| Würzburg, 2023 | Böhm, A. M. | sli: short loud and important |
| Würzburg, 2023 | Böhm, A. M. | sli: small loud and important |
| Würzburg, 2023 | Böhm, A. M. | "that's healthy -> kills not immediately" |
| Würzburg, 2023 | Böhm, A. M. | ... for the logically impaired |
| Würzburg, 2023 | Musk, E. | "All Our Patent [sic!] Are Belong To You" |
| Würzburg, 2023 | Hearst, W. R. | "You furnish the pictures. I’ll furnish the war." |
| Würzburg, 2023 | Böhm, A. M. | "When all you learned is economics, ..." |
| Würzburg, 2023 | unknown |
CAUTION EXTERNAL DATA: Don`t click attachments unless you know the content is safe.
CAUTION EXTERNAL DATA: Don`t click links unless you know the content is safe. CAUTION EXTERNAL DATA: Don`t click images unless you know the content is safe. |
| Würzburg, 2023 | Ellen H. Swallow Richards: Euthenics: The Science of Controllable Environment: A Plea for Better Conditions As a First Step Toward Higher Human Efficiency. 2nd Edition. Whitcomb & Barrows, Boston 1912 | "Not through chance, but through increase of scientific knowledge; not through compulsion, but through democratic idealism consciously working through common interests, will be brought about the creation of right conditions, the control of the environment." |
| Würzburg, 2023 | Louis Pasteur, cited by Ellen H. Swallow Richards: Euthenics: The Science of Controllable Environment : A Plea for Better Conditions As a First Step Toward Higher Human Efficiency. 2nd Auflage. Whitcomb & Barrows, Boston 1912 | "It is within the power of every living man to rid himself of every parasitic disease." |
| Würzburg, 2023 | unknown | practice makes perfect |
| Würzburg, 2022 | Goldin, D. | "faster, better, cheaper" |
| Würzburg, 2022 | unknown | time is always now |
| Würzburg, 2022 | unknown |
Ignorance + Religion = Terrorism
Ignorance + Power = Tyranny Ignorance + Freedom = Chaos Ignorance + Money = Corruption Ignorance + Poverty = Crime Ignorance is the root of all evil. Education is the key. |
| Würzburg, 2022 | unknown | I judge people based the hard disk space occupied by the text editor of their choice. |
| Würzburg, 2022 | Ed Rooney in Ferris Bueller's Day Off | I don't trust this kid any further than I can throw him. |
| Würzburg, 2022 | unknown | Don't piss off old people. The older they get, the less 'life in prison' is a deterrent. |
| Würzburg, 2022 | unknown | Don't be difficult with old people, they spent a lifetime learning the skill. |
| Würzburg, 2022 | unknown |
Things you can say in response to literally
anything, when you have nothing else to say
|
| Würzburg, 2022 | Musk, E., 2022 | A social media platform's policies are good, if the most extreme 10% on the left and on the right are equally unhappy. |
| Würzburg, 2022 | unknown | Always wear protective clothing and approved helmet when using the software. The software may contain small particles, so keep it out of reach of children under age of five. The author doesn't assume any responsibility for mental and social problems the software may cause. |
| Würzburg, 2022 | unknown | Welcome to the Great Reinfection |
| Würzburg, 2022 | Junghans, B. |
1. learn the rules 2. master the rules 3. break the rules |
| Würzburg, 2022 | Stroustrup, B. | "I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone." |
| Würzburg, 2022 | Russell, B., The Triumph of Stupidity, 10.05.1933 | "The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." |
| Würzburg, 2022 | unknown | least publishable unit |
| Würzburg, 2022 | Jobs, S., 2005 | "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it." |
| Würzburg, 2022 | Jobs, S., 1993 | "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." |
| Würzburg, 2022 | unknown | I have an RNA joke, but it might get lost in translation. |
| Würzburg, 2022 | unknown | I have a microscopy joke, but it's out of focus. |
| Würzburg, 2022 | Petersen, W. | "Whoever said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, has obviously never had to reboot a computer." |
| Würzburg, 2022 | Lazarenn, Confessions and Lamentations | "That does seem to be the rule, doesn't it? Analyze the problem, choose whichever strategy makes least sense, and do it." |
| Würzburg, 2022 | unknown | If no one comes from the future to stop you from doing it, then how bad can it be? |
| Würzburg, 2022 | Thiele, J. | "Our vision of the past is always much clearer than our vision of the future." |
| Würzburg, 2022 | The BOFH | "Buying carbon credits is a bit like a serial killer paying someone else to have kids to make his activity cost neutral." |
| Würzburg, 2022 | unknown |
You don't need a parachute to skydive. You need a parachute to skydive twice. |
| Würzburg, 2022 | From the Tank Man on 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre |
It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone. |
| Würzburg, 2022 | FidoNews, 39(9), 28.02.2022 | What if dogs bring the ball back, because they think that you enjoy throwing it? |
| Würzburg, 2022 | Frank Sinatra, cited by FidoGazette, 18(4), 28.02.2022 | "If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors." |
| Würzburg, 2022 | Carlin, G. | Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. |
| Würzburg, 2022 | Harris, T., 1973 | If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product. When something is for free, you are the product. |
| Würzburg, 2022 | unknown |
You are not paid according to how hard you work. You are paid according to how hard you are to replace. |
| Würzburg, 2022 | Douglas Adams | "Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" |
| Würzburg, 2022 | unknown | Just as not everyone can be a physical doctor, not everyone should be an author. |
| Würzburg, 2022 | unknown | Just as not everyone can be a physical doctor, not everyone should be a pilot. |
| Würzburg, 2021 | rule |
before you speak, do think:
|
| Würzburg, 2021 | Böhm, A. M. | spiritual tolerance overflow |
| Würzburg, 2021 | Kirkman, J. | "Of course God is a woman. That's why the Bible is an entire book filled with men explaining what she said." |
| Würzburg, 2021 | Bob Marley | "Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance." |
| Würzburg, 2021 | unknown | By the way, there is no race, no religion, no nation, no skin color and no gender without a natural proportion of idiots. |
| Würzburg, 2021 | unknown | It's so good to be me! |
| Würzburg, 2021 | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
"That devides one from being a champion or one not being a champion. If you can go through this pain barrier you make it to be a champion. If you can't go through - forget it."
Reference |
| Würzburg, 2021 | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
"And that's what most people lack is in having the guts. The guts to go in and just say 'I go through and I don't care what happens. I know it aches.'"
Reference |
| Würzburg, 2021 | Bell Helicopters | "We train the best to be better." |
| Würzburg, 2021 | Brian W. Kernighan | "Don’t comment bad code - rewrite it." |
| Würzburg, 2021 | George Orwell |
"The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact." |
| Würzburg, 2021 | George Orwell |
"The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour.
War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking into the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. Even when weapons of war are not actually destroyed, their manufacture is still a convenient way of expending labour power without producing anything that can be consumed." |
| Würzburg, 2021 | Amara, R. |
Amara's law: "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run" |
| Würzburg, 2021 | Böhm, A. M. |
EoP - the Exam-only-Paper will be read only once - by the reviewers |
| Würzburg, 2021 | Idi Amin | "There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech." |
| Würzburg, 2021 | Böhm, A. M. | a Shitfix |
| Würzburg, 2021 | Douglas Adams, "THGTTG" | "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." |
| Würzburg, 2021 | Heitsch, G., cbm-hackers@musoftware.de | "Well, it's a semiconductor, so semi-functional is to be expected. ;)" |
| Würzburg, 2021 | Fido-Net, Mailfooter | /dev/screwdriver |
| Würzburg, 2020 | Stein, G. | "Affectations can be dangerous." |
| Würzburg, 2020 | perlobj (source, CPAN) |
"Multiple inheritance often indicates a design problem, but Perl always gives you enough rope to hang yourself with if you ask for it."
reference |
| Würzburg, 2020 | New York Times Co. v. United States, United States Supreme Court, No. 1873, 403 U, S. 713 (1971) | "Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people [...]" |
| Würzburg, 2020 | unknown | It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you look playing the game. |
| Würzburg, 2020 | Galbraith, J. K. |
An old Windows has old security holes.
A new Windows has new security holes. Another OS has other security holes. For safety you must care yourself. |
| Würzburg, 2020 | Galbraith, J. K. | "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." |
| Würzburg, 2020 | Hauenstein, K. | "When they stop pirating your music, you know you're dead." |
| Würzburg, 2020 | Tape auf Atari from Kruder&Dorfmeister | "do not adjust your brain, there is a fault in reality." |
| Würzburg, 2020 | deGrasse Tyson, N., FIDOGAZETTE Vol 14 No 26, September 09, 2020 | "If I were ever abducted by aliens, the first thing I'd ask is whether they came from a planet where fellow aliens also deny science." |
| Würzburg, 2020 | Böhm, A. M. | "Ey, you got the drip-drop" |
| Würzburg, 2020 | Böhm, A. M. | "Seeing your lights" |
| Würzburg, 2020 | Böhm, A. M. | "Disagree and commit" |
| Würzburg, 2020 | Mark Twain | "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." |
| Starnberg, 1999 | OSI-Modell |
the 10 layers of th OSI-Model: 10. Religion layer 9. Politics layer 8. Administration layer 7. Application layer 6. Presentation layer 5. Session layer 4. Transport layer 3. Network layer 2. Data link layer 1. Physical layer |
| Würzburg, 2020 | Dilbert to his boss Boss | "If challenges are more valuable than money, give me your money and you got my challenges." |
| Würzburg, 2020 |
Robert Hayes, July 12, 2019, How To Prevent Windows From Automatically Reducing System Volume
reference |
"Longtime Microsoft watchers know that what you really have to watch out for isn’t malevolent intention on the part of the Redmond-based software giant. If Microsoft tries to be evil, they usually just mess it up and don’t really do anything. No, it’s when Microsoft tries to HELP that you have to look out [...]." |
| Würzburg, 2020 | Henry Ford | "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." |
| Würzburg, 2020 | Hubbard, E., 1922 | "Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing, and you'll never be criticized." |
| Würzburg, 2020 | Hanlon's razor | Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. |
| Würzburg, 2020 | unknown | "He who asks a question is a fool for a moment; He who doesn't ask is a fool forever." |
| Würzburg, 2020 | Allen, J., Vantiq | "If you have a hammer, you can use the hammer to build a house, or you can use the hammer to kill somebody. It's a tool. And sometimes the way I think is, our platform is a tool to enable developing applications," |
| Würzburg, 2020 | George Takei, Twitter, 16.03.2020. | "BREAKING: Due to massive incompetence and inexplicable delay, WHO to rename Covid-19 to Covfefe-45." |
| Würzburg, 2020 | Abraham Lincoln | "I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday." |
| Würzburg, 2020 | John Basil Barnhill, Barnhill-Tichenor Debate on Socialism, As It Appeared in the National Rip-Saw (Saint Louis, Mo.: The National Rip-Saw Pub. Co., 1914), 34. | "Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty." |
| Würzburg, 2020 | Ralph Paterson Tester, cited by: Donald Michie: Colossus and the Breaking of the Wartime "Fish" Codes. Cryptologia, 26:1, S. 22, 2002. | "You know, it's easy for me. Most things go downhill with age. Stamina for some reason goes the other way. So you're no good at this sort of thing until you're at least forty. Another coffee, anyone?" |
| Würzburg, 2019 | James Dean | Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today. |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Unknown | Your Training is our/my warmup |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Unknown | Your competition First round is our/my warmup |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Unknown | Everything happens for a reason. That reason is usually physics |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Steve Jobs | Your time is limited. so don't waste it living someone else's life. |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Unknown |
Social engineering specialist
Because there is no patch for human stupidity |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Unknown |
I can explain it to you,
But I can’t understand it for you |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Wired Magazine | When information is cheap, context is more valuable than ever. |
| Würzburg, 2019 | unknown | UNIX is user-friendly, it's just a little picky about who its friends are |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Marcus Zahn, 27.12.2016, Monday Knowledge Snippet (MKS), 67 TM 9.4, Renewed Page Layouts, https://blogs.sap.com/ | "New features are new features and the reason to upgrade." |
| Würzburg, 2019 | William L. Shirer, End of a Berlin Diary, Hamish Hamilton, London,1947, p. ?? | "For the Germans - with true Teutonic thoroughness - wrote everything down." |
| Würzburg, 2019 | William L. Shirer, End of a Berlin Diary, Hamish Hamilton, London,1947, p. 307 | "The idiots wrote everything down." |
| Würzburg, 2019 | William L. Shirer, Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-41 |
"I suppose every government that has ever gone to war has tried to convince its people of three things:
(1) that right is on its side; (2) that it is fighting purely in defence of the nation; (3) that it is sure to win." |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Roosevelt, E, cited by: William L. Shirer, William L. Shirer Twentieth Century Journey: The Start (1904-1930), The Nightmare Years (1930-1940), A Native's Return | "Please for the sake of the future, nail every Communist" |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Eric Idle | "You know, you come from nothing, you're going back to nothing. What have you lost? Nothing!" |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Jungkunz, B. | "Smoothie - vegane corpse water" |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Null, C. cited by Barrett, B., How a 'Null' License Plate Landed a Hacker in Ticket Hell, Wired Magazine, 13.08.2019 |
"The ‘minimum viable product’ concept has pushed a lot of bad code
through that doesn’t go through with the proper level of testing."
reference |
| Würzburg, 2019 | unknown | "No Backup - No Mercy" |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Roberts, L. | "If you begin with shit, you'll finish with shit." |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Böhm, A. M. | "Never let your children update the productive computer system you depend on." |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Lauterbach, B., Sauer, S., Gottlieb, J., Sürie, C., Benz. U., Transportation Management with SAP, Rheinwerk Publishing, Boston, MA, p. 61 | "[...] SAP did develop the language [ABAP] to be a best-fitting, reliable, and fast platform for business applications." |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Arouet, F.-M., a.k.a. Voltaire |
"To determine the true rulers of any society, all you must do is ask
yourself this question:
Who is it that I am not permitted to criticize?" |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Dossche, W., FidoNet | "When a discussion in an electronic forum with a US citizen grows longer (regardless of topic or scope), the likelihood of becoming sidetracked to US Presidential elections, the 2nd Amendment or ‘We saved your asses in WW2’ increases exponentially." |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Godwin, M., 1990 |
"As a discussion on the Internet
grows longer, the likelihood of a comparison of a
person's being compared to Hitler or another Nazi
reference, increases."
(Godwin's Law a.k.a. Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies) |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Heinlein, R. A. | They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday. |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Twain, M., In Europe and Elsewhere, 1923, p. 175 | "The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable. This form of stupidity is confined to no community, to no nation; it is universal. The fact is the human race is not only slow about borrowing valuable ideas it sometimes persists in not borrowing them at all." |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Ocasio-Cortez, A. | "Justice is about making sure that being polite is not the same thing as staying quiet. In fact oftentimes the most righteous thing you can do is shake the table." |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Einstein, A. | "I know not what weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." |
| Freudenberg, 2019 | Schmidt, E., cited by Tate, R., Google CEO: Secrets Are for Filthy People, Gawker.com, 12.04.2009 | "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place." |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Ebert, R., at rogerebert.com, 02/20/2008 | "Life of Brian is so cheerfully inoffensive that, well, it’s almost blasphemous to take it seriously." |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Jones, T, cited in Monty Python Speaks!, S. 247. | "The whole thing about 'The sandal' [...] is like a history of the Church in three minutes." |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Jones, T, cited in Monty Python Speaks!, S. 247. | "[...] Christ [is] saying all of these wonderful things about people living together in peace and love, and then for the next two thousand years people are putting each other to death in His name because they can’t agree on how He said it, or in what order He said it." |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Shilbrack, K., in: Hardcastle, G. L., Reischm G. A., (Ed.): Monty Python and Philosophy. Carus Publishing Company, 2006, p. 23 | "One cannot rebel against the absurd, but one can laugh at it." |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Shacklett, M., BYOD backpedaling: How to convince employees to give up personal devices, techrepublic.com, 03/05/2019 |
"Companies are discovering that BYOD causes more problems than solutions."
reference |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Boehm, A. M. | "Suicide by Cops" is a well known word. What about "Suicide by Novice Driver"? |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Sheridan to Garibaldi, "The Geometry of Shadows" | "The universe doesn't give you any points for doing things that are easy." |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Halfhill, T. R., Byte Senior Editor, Byte Jan 97 | "To put it bluntly, it's negligent for software developers to ignore the possibility that their code may live for 10 or 20 years." |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Thomas Paine |
"When the people fear the government, you have tyranny.
When the government fears the people, you have freedom." |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Arthur Koestler | "The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward." |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Douglas Adams | "It is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do so." |
| Würzburg, 2019 | Madeleine L'Engle | "The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been." |
| Stuttgart, 2018 | Logan, D., King, J., Fischer-Wright, H. Tribal Stages, signs of Stage 4: |
"They tend to ask, 'what’s the next right thing to do?'
Their language focuses on 'we,' not 'me.' If two people get in a squabble, a third will step in and repair the relationship:" |
| Würzburg, 2018 | Vonnegut, K. | "Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance." |
| Würzburg, 2018 | unknown | FIRE - financial independence, retire early |
| Würzburg, 2018 | unknown | No gunfight survivor has ever said that he wished he had less powerful ammunition or fewer shots available. |
| Würzburg, 2018 | Moritz, M. | "The first rule of gunfighting is, have a gun." |
| Stuttgart, 2018 | Lorenzo, R., Voigt, N., Schetelig, K., Zawadzski,A, Welpe, I, Brosi, P., The Mix that Matters Boston Consulting Group, 2017 | Innovation is defined as: "percentage of revenue from new products or services in the most recent three-year period" reference |
| Stuttgart, 2018 | Logan, D., King, J., Fischer-Wright, H. |
Tribal Stages, signs of Stage 4:
They tend to ask, "what’s the next right thing to do?" Their language focuses on "we," not "me." If two people get in a squabble, a third will step in and repair the relationship |
| Stuttgart, 2018 | Sutherland, J. | Stories can always be broken down |
| Stuttgart, 2018 | unknown | cst: common sense team |
| Stuttgart, 2018 | unknown | team: Together Everybody Achieves More |
| Stuttgart, 2018 | Böhm, A. M. | Don‘t manage the people, manage the system. |
| Stuttgart, 2018 | Appelo, J. | Manage the system, not the people. |
| Würzburg, 2018 | anonymous | I wonder how many strangers have taken photos with me in the background. |
| Würzburg, 2018 | anonymous | If we were eyeless we'd be unaware of colour. What if we're missing some part of reality because we don't have the organ to detect it? |
| Würzburg, 2018 | anonymous | Your age is just the number of laps you've done around a giant ball of fire in the centre of our solar system. |
| Würzburg, 2018 | anonymous | Once you've read a dictionary, every other book you read is just a remix. |
| Würzburg, 2018 | anonymous | The men in expensive suits look successful until you learn that they often work for people who dress in jeans and t-shirts. |
| Würzburg, 2018 | Armstrong, J., the creator of Erlang | The problem with object-oriented languages is they’ve got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle. |
| Würzburg, 2018 | Film Wargames, 1983 | WOPR: "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play." |
| Würzburg, 2018 | saying | A clean home is wasted time |
| Würzburg, 2018 | Trump, D., twitter, 14. Okt. 2012, 11:43 | I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke. |
| Würzburg, 2018 | unknown | MIP - most important person |
| Würzburg, 2018 | saying |
"fail early, fail cheap."
meant is really cheap, not inexpensive... |
| Würzburg, 2017 | Böhm, A. M. |
About the definition of "that's healthy":
Does it heal? Does it cure? Does it prevent? Does it protect against illness and infirmity? Does it delay the exitus (that would be infirmity)? Or does it just not kill you (immediately)? |
| Würzburg, 2017 | Watson-Watt, R., "cult of the imperfect" | "Give them the third-best to go on with; the second-best comes too late, [and] the best never comes." |
| Würzburg, 2017 | unknown | sometimes done is better than perfect. |
| Würzburg, 2017 | Brigstocke, M. | "Computer games don't affect kids. I mean, if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music." |
| Würzburg, 2017 | Stroustrup, B. | "More good code has been written in languages denounced as bad than in languages proclaimed wonderful - much more." |
| Würzburg, 2017 | unknown | You cannot control what you cannot measure |
| Würzburg, 2017 | Denoncourt, D., Aging in IT and Being a Lifelong Learner, infoq.com |
"Advice for younger teammates - remember you are only as good as your accomplishments over the last two years"
reference |
| Würzburg, 2017 | Beck, K. | "Make it work, make it right, make it fast." |
| Würzburg, 2017 | Johnson, R. | "Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable." |
| Würzburg, 2017 | Freeman, A. | "Simplicity is the soul of efficiency." |
| Würzburg, 2017 | Fowler, M. | "When to use iterative development? You should use iterative development only on projects that you want to succeed." |
| Würzburg, 2017 | Beck, K. | "Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: feedback is the treatment." |
| Würzburg, 2017 | Maguire, S. | "Fix the cause, not the symptom." |
| Würzburg, 2017 | House, C. | "Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it’s bad." |
| Würzburg, 2017 | de Saint-Exupery, A. | "Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away." |
| Würzburg, 2017 | Salomon, D. | "Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday’s code." |
| Würzburg, 2017 | Bacon, B. | "Knowledge is power." |
| Würzburg, 2017 | Heilmann, C. | "Java is to JavaScript what car is to carpet." |
| Würzburg, 2017 | Chanel, C. | "In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different" |
| Würzburg, 2017 | Wilde, O. | "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." |
| Würzburg, 2017 | Johnson, J. | "First, solve the problem. Then, write the code." |
| Würzburg, 2017 | Fowler, M. | "Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." |
| Würzburg, 2017 | DeMarco, T. Why Does Software Cost So Much?, Dorset House, 1995 | "There are two familiar variants of the documentation problem: a) you write all the internal documentation that you know you need and you pay a terrible price for it, or b) you don’t write all the internal documentation you need and you pay a terrible price for that." |
| Würzburg, 2017 | Böhm, A. | sales-tuned head set with javascript support optimized for promises |
| Würzburg, 2017 | Timothy Leary |
Two Commandments for the Molecular Age:
1. "Thou shalt not alter the consciousness of thy fellow men." 2. "Thou shalt not prevent thy fellow man from altering his or her own consciousness." |
| Würzburg, 2017 | Roosevelt, E. | Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. |
| Würzburg, 2017 | unknown | Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. |
| Würzburg, 2017 | Dr Leonard McCoy | "I'm a doctor, not a mechanic." |
| Würzburg, 2017 | No. 7 of The Eight I'd Really Rather You Didn'ts of the Pastafari | "I’d Really Rather You Didn’t Go Around Telling People I Talk To You. You’re Not That Interesting. Get Over Yourself." |
| Würzburg, 2017 | Reiser, M. cited by Wirth, N., 1995 | "Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster." |
| Würzburg, 2017 | Cyril Northcote Parkinson cited by Wirth, N., 1995 | "Software expands to fill the available memory." |
| Würzburg, 2017 | Edward Bernays | "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits andopinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute aninvisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." |
| Würzburg, 2017 | Margaret Thatcher | "The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money" |
| Würzburg, 2017 | Martin Fowler, 2008 |
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand.
Good programmers write code that humans can understand. |
| Würzburg, 2017 | Funk, K., Karrierekiller Tattoo?, computerwoche vom 01.01.2017 | "Think before you ink." |
| Würzburg, 2016 | William G. McAdoo | "It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." |
| Würzburg, 2016 | Gilmore, J., Time Magazine, 1993 | "The Net treats censorship as a defect and routes around it." |
| Würzburg, 2016 | Gilmore, J., Computers, Freedom and Privacy, First Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy, March 28, 1991 | "How many of you have broken no laws this month?" |
| Würzburg, 2016 | Gilmore, J. |
"We make free software affordable."
slogan of Cygnus Solutions |
| Würzburg, 2016 | Diane Francis, Hudson Institute Kleptocracy Initiative, Canada, Dec 13, 2016, LinkedIn | "When you run a welfare state, you cannot afford to open the floodgates." |
| Würzburg, 2016 | Wirth, N. |
Wirth’s Law "Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster." |
| Würzburg, 2016 | Wirth, N. |
Wirth’s Law "Software expands to fill the available memory." |
| Würzburg, 2016 | Hoare, C.A.R. | "I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." |
| Würzburg, 2016 | Tesla, N. | "If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration." |
| Würzburg, 2016 | Hopper, G. B. M. | "A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what a ship is built for." |
| Würzburg, 2016 | Hopper, G. B. M. | "If in doubt - do it." |
| Würzburg, 2016 | Hopper, G. B. M. | "The most dangerous phrase in the language is, 'We’ve always done it this way.'" |
| Würzburg, 2016 | Hopper, G. B. M. | "It’s always easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission." |
| Würzburg, 2016 | Hopper, G. B. M. | "Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems." |
| Würzburg, 2016 | Jack Welch | "fix it, sell it or close it" |
| Würzburg, 2016 | William A. Foster | Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives. |
| Würzburg, 2016 | Saying | A gentleman will walk but never run.... |
| Würzburg, 2016 | Martínez, A. G., interview by Grassegger, H, golem.de, 09/14/2016, 10:54 | Make an impact! Go fast and break things! Done is better than perfect. Get in over your Head. |
| Würzburg, 2016 | Mark Douglas | "Policy is policing." |
| Würzburg, 2016 | Meisner, S. cited by Esper, W., DiMarco, D., The Actors Art and Craft, Anchor, 2008 | "May I say as the world’s oldest living teacher, 'Fuck Polite!'" |
| Würzburg, 2016 | Meisner, S. cited by Esper, W., DiMarco, D., The Actors Art and Craft, Anchor, 2008 | "Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning." |
| Würzburg, 2016 | Meisner, S. cited by Esper, W., DiMarco, D., The Actors Art and Craft, Anchor, 2008 | "An ounce of behavior is worth more than a pound of words." |
| Würzburg, 2016 | Meisner, S. cited by Esper, W., DiMarco, D., The Actors Art and Craft, Anchor, 2008 | "You know it’s all right to be wrong, but it's not all right not to try." |
| Würzburg, 2016 | Meisner, S. cited by Esper, W., DiMarco, D., The Actors Art and Craft, Anchor, 2008 | "There's no such thing as nothing." |
| Würzburg, 2016 | Meisner, S. cited by Esper, W., DiMarco, D., The Actors Art and Craft, Anchor, 2008 | "Less is more!" |
| Würzburg, 2016 | 10 things you didn’t know about Europe’s tech scene, Mohout, O., venturebeat.com, September 4, 2016 | The first thing to understand about the European tech scene is that there is no European tech scene. |
| Würzburg, 2016 | mail footer | sent from a prehistoric stone tablet. |
| Würzburg, 2016 | Kuok, R. | When I hire people, I look for great attitude. I don't look for MBA or PhD. |
| Würzburg, 2016 | saying | start with "why?" |
| Würzburg, 2016 | saying | danger - expectations ahead |
| Würzburg, 2016 | saying | Let’s make better mistakes tomorrow. |
| Würzburg, 2016 | saying | You must spend money to make money. |
| Würzburg, 2016 | found somewhere | Grind: get ready it’s a new day |
| Würzburg, 2016 | found somewhere | Fact of life: after Monday and Tuesday even the calendars say: W T F |
| Würzburg, 2016 | found somewhere | Some of you are only conscious online |
| Würzburg, 2016 | Parkinson's Law | "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." |
| Würzburg, 2016 | Parkinson's Law | "The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved." |
| Würzburg, 2016 | unknown | On a clear disk you can seek forever. |
| Würzburg, 2016 | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | "Questions are the Beginning of Wisdom." |
| Würzburg, 2016 | William H. McRaven |
"repetition, surprise, security, speed, simplicity, and purpose"
key principles of vize admiral William H. McRaven |
| Würzburg, 2015 | Murrow. E. R. | "There are, it is true, occasional informative programs presented in that intellectual ghetto on Sunday afternoons. But during the daily peak viewing periods, television in the main insulates us from the realities of the world in which we live." |
| Würzburg, 2015 | unknown |
Some things have to be seen to be believed. Most things have to be believed to be seen. |
| Würzburg, 2015 | Kinks, 1966 | "People take pictures of each other, ...just to prove that they really existed" |
| Würzburg, 2015 | Footer in posting at Gun Digest Store (e-gundigest.com) | Don't Forget: After self-defense you need legal defense. |
| Würzburg, 2015 | Fido-Net, Mailfooter | To err is Human. To blame someone else is politics. |
| Würzburg, 2015 | Arthur T. Harris |
"The only thing the Arab understands is the heavy hand"
Arthur Travers Harris cited by James S. Corum, Wray R. Johnson: Airpower in Small Wars: Fighting Insurgents and Terrorists (Modern War Studies), p. 65, University Press of Kansas, 2003 |
| Würzburg, 2015 | Bockshorn Vorschau November, 09+10/2015 | An apple a day keeps the doctor away. |
| Würzburg, 2015 | Sir Arthur C. Clarke in Credo, 1991 | The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. |
| Würzburg, 2015 | The Big Bang Theorie, season 3, episode 23 |
Sheldon: Interesting. My mother and I have the same agreement about church.
Amy: I don't object to the concept of a deity, but I'm baffled by the notion of one that takes attendance. |
| Würzburg, 2015 | Derek Bok | "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." |
| Würzburg, 2015 | John Perry cited by: Doherty, B., The Thomas Jefferson of cyberspace reinvents his body – and his politics, Reason, August/September 2004 | "We all get older and smarter." |
| Würzburg, 2015 | Kantor, B. | "A medium apple... weighs 182 grams, yields 95 kcal, and contains no caffeine, thus making it unsuitable for sysadmins." |
| Würzburg, 2015 | Spolsky, J. | "For some reason most people seem to be born without the part of the brain that understands pointers." |
| Würzburg, 2015 | Spolsky, J. | "Remember, smart does not mean 'knows the answer[s] to trivia questions.'" |
| Würzburg, 2015 | Spolsky, J. | "People who are Smart but don’t Get Things Done often have PhDs and work in big companies where nobody listens to them because they are completely impractical. [...] These kind of people can be identified because they love to point out the theoretical similarity between two widely divergent concepts." |
| Würzburg, 2014 | wattie in F64 | "I wanted to make this world better, but god denied to give me the sources..." |
| Würzburg, 2014 | unknown | If a group of N persons implements a COBOL compiler, there will be N-1 passes. Someone in the group has to be the manager. |
| Würzburg, 2014 | unknown | COBOL programmers understand why women hate periods. |
| Würzburg, 2014 | unknown | Cobol: Completely Obsolete Business Orientated Language. |
| Würzburg, 2014 | From the W3 XML page |
Q: When do I need xml ?
A: When I need a new buzz word for my resume. |
| Würzburg, 2014 | phluid | "I won't program in java anymore. I'm not Marxist and don't believe in classes." |
| Würzburg, 2014 | unknown (Alanna?) | "Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OSs is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders." |
| Würzburg, 2014 | Ribbens, J. | PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil, perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals. |
| Würzburg, 2014 | Dalai Lama, Seattle Times, May 15, 2001 | If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun. |
| Würzburg, 2014 | H. L. Mencken | For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. |
| Würzburg, 2014 | unknown | Mess with with the best or die with the rest |
| Würzburg, 2014 | unknown | BER: Beyond Economical Repair |
| Würzburg, 2014 | George S. Patton cited by Schmitz, H., Raus aus der Demotivationsfalle, Gabler-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2005 | "Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results." |
| Würzburg, 2014 | George S. Patton | "May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't." |
| Würzburg, 2014 | John Wayne | "Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday." |
| Würzburg, 2014 | unknown | If you want to find a path with no obstacles, it probably won't lead you anywhere. |
| Würzburg, 2014 | unknown | the number you have dialed has never been available. |
| Seeshaupt, 2014 | unknown | Java: write once, debug anywhere |
| Würzburg, 2014 | unknown | "Success Trains. Failure Complains." |
| Würzburg, 2014 | Lennon, J. | "Life is what happens to you, while you’re busy making other plans" |
| Würzburg, 2014 | Fido, 30.08.2014 | Bugs come in through open Windows. |
| Würzburg, 2014 | Ruskin, J. | "Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort." |
| Würzburg, 2014 | Robert Baden-Powell | "Try and leave this world a little better than you found it" |
| Würzburg, 2014 | Zac Gery, Programmer Happiness: It's the Little Things | John Wooden stated, "It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen." |
| Würzburg, 2014 | Zac Gery, Programmer Happiness: It's the Little Things | Oscar Levant once said, "Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember." |
| Würzburg, 2013 | Ernst Stuhlinger | "The way to belief is short and easy, the way to knowledge is long and hard." |
| Würzburg, 2013 | Tom Hanks, cited by Hoaxers vs. Rocket Scientists: Even NASA unsure how to counter claims of faked moon landings, Associated Press, 21.12,2002 | "We live in a society where there is no law in making money in the promulgation of ignorance or, in some cases, stupidity ..." |
| Würzburg, 2013 | Niels Bohr | "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future." |
| Würzburg, 2013 | Mark Twain | "Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please." |
| Würzburg, 2013 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | "Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play." |
| Würzburg, 2013 | Albert Einstein | "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." |
| Würzburg, 2013 | Helen Keller | "The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision." |
| Würzburg, 2013 | Kathy Jackson |
"Why do you carry a gun?"
"I carry a gun because I can't carry a policeman." |
| Würzburg, 2013 | Schwarzenegger, 1990 | "95% of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave" |
| Würzburg, 2013 | Miller's Law | "You can't tell how deep a puddle is until you step in it." |
| Würzburg, 2013 | Damian Conway | "Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live." |
| Würzburg, 2013 | Peter M. Senge | "Cause and effect are not closely related in time and space." |
| Würzburg, 2013 | Hofmann, P., City of Munich, cited by Nick Heath, How Munich rejected Steve Ballmer and kicked Microsoft out of the city, techrepublic.com, 20.11.2013 | "Windows has developed from a pure PC-centred operating system, like Windows 3.11 was, to a whole infrastructure. If you're staying with Microsoft you're getting more and more overwhelmed to update and change your whole IT infrastructure [to fit with Microsoft]" |
| Würzburg, 2013 | Williams, E. cited by Tate, R., Twitter Founder Reveals Secret Formula for Getting Rich Online, WIRED.com, 30.09.2013 | "The internet is 'a giant machine designed to give people what they want.'" |
| Würzburg, 2013 | Williams, E. cited by Tate, R., Twitter Founder Reveals Secret Formula for Getting Rich Online, WIRED.com, 30.09.2013 | "We often think of the internet enables you to do new things," Williams said. "But people just want to do the same things they’ve always done." |
| Würzburg, 2013 | Williams, E. cited by Tate, R., Twitter Founder Reveals Secret Formula for Getting Rich Online, WIRED.com, 30.09.2013 | "The internet makes human desires more easily attainable. In other words, it offers convenience. Convenience on the internet is basically achieved by two things: speed, and cognitive ease." |
| Würzburg, 2013 | Williams, E. cited by Tate, R., Twitter Founder Reveals Secret Formula for Getting Rich Online, WIRED.com, 30.09.2013 | "If you study what the really big things on the internet are, you realize they are masters at making things fast and not making people think." |
| Würzburg, 2013 | Tate, R., Twitter Founder Reveals Secret Formula for Getting Rich Online, WIRED.com, 30.09.2013 | "In other words, people don’t want to wait, and they don’t want to think — and the internet should respond to that." |
| Würzburg, 2013 | Found somewhere |
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work.
Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why. |
| Würzburg, 2013 | Albert Einstein | "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." |
| Würzburg, 2013 | Dr. Seuss | "Adults are obsolete children." |
| Würzburg, 2013 | Shana Alexander | "The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous." |
| Würzburg, 2013 | Albert Einstein | "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." |
| Würzburg, 2013 | Maya Angelou | "Nothing will work unless you do." |
| Würzburg, 2013 | pixadel | "Fine, Java MIGHT be a good example of what a programming language should be like. But Java applications are good examples of what applications SHOULDN'T be like." |
| Würzburg, 2013 | Thomas A. Edison | "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." |
| Würzburg, 2013 | Mailfooter | No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. |
| Würzburg, 2013 | Aldous Huxley | "Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you." |
| Würzburg, 2013 | Albert Einstein | "The important thing is not to stop questioning." |
| Würzburg, 2013 | Altshuler, M. | "The bad news is time flies. The good news is you are the pilot." |
| Würzburg, 2012 | Mailfooter |
One OS to rule them all
One OS to find them One OS to bring them all And in the Darkness bind them. |
| Würzburg, 2012 | african lore, cited by von Hirschhausen, E., Wohin geht die Liebe, wenn sie durch den Magen durch ist?, rororo, 2012, appendix p. 5 | "It takes a whole village to raise a child." |
| Würzburg, 2012 | von Hirschhausen, E., Wohin geht die Liebe, wenn sie durch den Magen durch ist?, rororo, 2012, P. 298 | "If it isn't broken, don't fix it!" |
| Würzburg, 2012 | unknown | "I don't need light, I'm enlighted." |
| Würzburg, 2012 | Published Studies |
Questioning and challenging of scientific results:
|
| Würzburg, 2012 | Carlos Hathcock, cited by C. W. Henderson, Marine Sniper, Berkley Caliber, 2005, p. 10 | "They just flop around a lot when you shoot 'em in the head." |
| Würzburg, 2012 | Ken Schwaber, 04.07.2012, scrumDay, St. Leon-Rot | One key point of lean is bottom-up intelligence. |
| Würzburg, 2012 | Ken Schwaber, 04.07.2012, scrumDay, St. Leon-Rot | You cannot measure a creative process but by the results. |
| Würzburg, 2012 | unknown |
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
This fact implicates: As long as your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. |
| Würzburg, 2012 | Schwaber, K., Beedle, M., Agile Software Development with Scrum, Pearson Studium, International Edition, 2008, p. 31 | "Learn first, then make changes." |
| Würzburg, 2012 | Lore | The easy way out usually leads back in. |
| Würzburg, 2011 | Rule #62 from: "100 Rules for NASA Project Managers" | Not using modern techniques, like computer systems, is a great mistake, but forgetting that the computer simulates thinking is a still greater mistake. |
| Würzburg, 2011 | While Reading the book "Persönlichkeiten statt Tyrannen", M Winterhoff, I. Thielen | "Banana-Children: The children mature at the employer's site." |
| Würzburg, 2011 | Anonymous | A clean bench is a sign of a weak mind. |
| Würzburg, 2011 | Definition of a SISO by A. M. Böhm | SISO: shit in - shit out |
| Würzburg, 2011 | Mailfooter in the Fido Net | File not found, loading something similar... |
| Würzburg, 2011 | Dean Rusk as cited by G. Kemp, Arms Sales and Arms Control in the Developing Countries, The World Today, 22 (9), 1966, p. 386-395 | "I recall that at the United Nations General Assembly, at a time when all members were voting unanimously for disarmament, 70 members were at that moment asking us [the United States] for military assistance." |
| Würzburg, 2011 | Thoughts about the principles and philosophy of the Web 2.0 | The customer has to do all the work. But what about the customer focus and the customer service mindset? |
| Würzburg, 2011 | Truth | "The cool and hard guys can be visited at the cemetery." |
| Würzburg, 2011 | Thoughts about the quality of state-of-the-art software | "Click and cry..." |
| Würzburg, 2011 | Java Jokes 1/2011 |
a) Integer iHnzlGrmpfl = Integer.valueOf(14);
b) Integer iHnzlGrmpfl = new Integer(126); c) Boolean blnHnzlGrmpfl = Boolean.valueOf(false); d) Boolean blnHnzlGrmpfl = new Boolean(true); |
| Würzburg, 2010 | Software refactoring done by tinkers | "When the If becomes a While..." |
| Würzburg, 2010 | Mailfooter |
"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability."
Edsger W. Dijkstra |
| Würzburg, 2010 | Discussion about NAS, SSD and other storage techniques | "TAS: tube attached storage, also called restroom." |
| Würzburg, 2010 | B. Rhubart, Something old, something new, bridging the generation gap - in enterprise architecture, Oracle Magazine, 24(5), 2010, p. 34 | [...] if you think, getting from as-is to to-be is a simple matter of swapping out old technologies, think again. |
| Würzburg, 2010 | B. Rhubart, Something old, something new, bridging the generation gap - in enterprise architecture, Oracle Magazine, 24(5), 2010, p. 34 |
"Usually, in 10 years of experience, people have been sucked
into enough hype cycles that they get a little jaded. They are no
longer going to believe that Technology X is going to save the world."
J. Davies, cited by B. Rhubart, |
| Würzburg, 2010 | B. Rhubart, Something old, something new, bridging the generation gap - in enterprise architecture, Oracle Magazine, 24(5), 2010, p. 34 |
"You need to have a healthy skepticism of the technologies
your're looking at, but you need to be open to new ideas.
"
J. Davies, cited by B. Rhubart, |
| Würzburg, 2010 | Col. Robert Lindsey, cited by M. Ayoob, about the relationship between course instructor and the students | "We are not God's thift to our students. Our students are God's thift to us." |
| Würzburg, 2010 | Jeff Cooper, cited by M. Ayoob, about the quality of free-lancing course instructor | "There are a great many people teaching things they haven't learned yet." |
| Würzburg, 2010 | A. Schwarzenegger in an interview with U.S. News, 1990 | "My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave." |
| Würzburg, 2010 | Mailfooter |
First-rate programmers want to hang around with first-rate programmers.
Second-rate programmers want to hang around with third-rate programmers. |
| Würzburg, 2010 | Thomas Jefferson |
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny;
when the government fears the people, there is liberty." |
| Würzburg, 2010 | Unknown | When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. |
| Würzburg, 2010 | Mailfooter |
Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?
(Clifford Stoll) |
| Würzburg, 2010 | Mailfooter | If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us. |
| Würzburg, 2010 | Mailfooter | "Better train people and risk they leave, than do nothing and risk they stay." (Anonymous) |
| Würzburg, 2010 | Why normal objects are now called "pojo" by the Java-Kiddies... |
"We [M. Fowler, R. Parsons, J. MacKenzie] wondered why people were so
against using regular objects in their systems and concluded that it
was because simple objects lacked a fancy name. So we gave them one,
and it's caught on very nicely."
Hint: Let you explain the term "Pojo" by a Java-Kiddy or a Java-Addict. The result is more revieling than the just cited explanation of the need for the "fancy name". |
| Würzburg, 2010 | Mailfooter |
With proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach
is arduous, but continues to succeed.
Dennis Ritchie |
| Würzburg, 2010 | Edsger Dijkstra | "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." |
| Würzburg, 2010 | Bertrand Russell, Why I am Not a Christian, 1929 | "Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear." |
| Würzburg, 2009 | San Jose Mercury News Ad., 2000 |
Your phone is wireless Your office is virtual Your social life is non-existing |
| Würzburg, 2009 | Fidonet |
File sharing is not theft. It has never been theft. Anyone who says
it
is theft is wrong and has unthinkingly absorbed too many Recording
Industry Association of America press releases.
Adam Livingstone, BBC Newsnight |
| Würzburg, 2009 | Fidonet |
In true democracy every man and women is taught to think for himself
or herself.
Mohandas K. Gandhi |
| Würzburg, 2009 | Fidonet |
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to
please everybody.
Bill Cosby |
| Würzburg, 2009 | Fidonet |
A great nation is like a great man:
When he makes a mistake, he realizes it. Having realized it, he admits it. Having admitted it, he corrects it. He considers those who point out his faults as his most benevolent teachers. Lao Tzu |
| Würzburg, 2009 | Fidonet |
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) |
| Würzburg, 2009 | Ego-Bingo, eine variant of the well-known "Bullshit-Bingo" for teams and team-oriented working environments |
Before starting the game, before the meeting, briefing or conference, each player chooses a number greater than five
and attends the event.
The words "I", "Mine" and there singular derivates are counted.
Only the words said by the attending exutive staff in person are counted, that are used in conjunction with
"to need",
"to require",
"to want",
"to feel",
"to have to"
"must"
and
"may"
and their synonyms, respectivly.
The one, who reaches his chosen number shouts "Bingo". The last shouter during the meeting wins.
This can be used to quantify the teaming-focus, when the mean of the winning numbers is build over a longer time. The larger that number is, the lesser the organisation is really team-oriented, but the more egocentric the executive staff is. |
| Würzburg, 2009 | Husband of Janis Kracht, cited by herself, in: FidoGazette, June 2009 | "Leave the smallest electronic footprints you can." |
| Würzburg, 2008 | Fidonet | WWW = "World Wide Waiting" |
| Würzburg, 2008 | US advertising film from the 1950s | "Challenge makes an engineer." |
| Würzburg, 2008 | unknown |
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: * If it moves, tax it. * If it keeps moving, regulate it. * If it stops moving, subsidize it. |
| Würzburg, 2008 | Helmut L. Clemm | "Hitech is Lowtech plus Software." |
| Würzburg, 2008 | Bill Gates, cited by Helmut L. Clemm | "Banking is necessary, banks are not. Banking is software." |
| Würzburg, 2007 | unknown | "ERROR 406: file corrupt: config.earth -- reboot universe? (Y/N)" |
| Würzburg, 2006 | Swearingen, E. | "The way to get to the top is to get off your bottom." |
| Würzburg, 2006 | Shaw, G. B. | "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." |
| Würzburg, 2006 | G.M. Trevelyan | Education [...] has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. |
| Würzburg, 2005 | Fido-Net | Zimmerman's Law of Complaints: "Nobody notices when things go right." |
| Hamburg, 2005 | Israely saying | Don't be right, be clever. |
| Würzburg, 2005 | unknown | It's not important what you are capable of, but it counts how you name it. |
| Würzburg, 2004 | Bertrand Russell | "Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so." |
| Würzburg, 2004 | Bertrand Russell | There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. |
| Würzburg, 2004 | RVZ, a saying seen in the lab | Fast methods, fast results, fast richtig. |
| Würzburg, 2004 | FGC | Please wait while system is crashing. |
| Würzburg, 2004 | Anonymous |
I have to disagree with the notion that we learn something new every day.
I think I've had several days in a row where I haven't learned anything and even forgotten some things. |
| Würzburg, 2004 | Tour | often immitated, never duplicated |
| Würzburg, 2003 | Tour | "Publish or perish" is well known, but what about "Profit or perish"? |
| Florida, 2003 | Vacation | "Failure is not an option", from the film Apollo 13. A very good motto. |
| Florida, 2003 | Vacation | "We don't have a procedure for this", from the film Apollo 13. You cannot explain the project management of the 1960s and the flexibility of the staff of that time more accurate. |
| Starnberg, 2001 | Office discussion | typical software message: "Please wait while we ignore you." |
| München, 2001 | visit | A two-node cluster. Both nodes talk normally over their hearbeat connection. Once, one node says to the other one: "Let's go and boot!" |
| Starnberg, 1998 | Funny contact with Java and its exceptions |
The NullPointerException in Java:
The best error message of a pointerless programming language... |
| Starnberg, 1998 | Discussion about bad software | "Banana-Ware: The software matures at the customer's site." |
| Friedrichshafen, 1992 | Lore | "Shit happens." |
| Friedrichshafen, 1988 | Brian in The Life of Brian | "You don’t need to follow anybody. You’ve all got to think for yourselves. You’re all individuals. [...] Don’t let anyone tell you what to do". |
| Friedrichshafen, 1980 | C-3PO, Star Wars | "I suggest a new strategy, R2: Let the Wookiee win." |
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