I was listening to The Economist “Babbage” podcast yesterday, and was really struck my something Timoni West said. She mentioned Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law - “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. She then said; “The reverse is also true - any sufficiently rigorous technology doesn’t feel like technology any more”.
Train of thought
"My attention span is so poor today that my train of thought is now a replacement bus service."
Quote from Moonwalking with Einstein
"Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear. That's why it's so important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to exotic locales, and have as many new experiences as possible that can serve to anchor our memories. Creating new memories stretches out psychological time, and lengthens our perception of our lives." -- Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
Brett's Law of Reusability...
"Any sufficiently complex bit of code is hard to make easily reusable without abstracting it to a level in which it is essentially useless."
Great Quote
I read the following quote at "The price of everything" blog:
“You couldn’t get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.” – Edward Flaherty.
I can't wait to find someone to insult.