I am not sure this is a problem worth ruining a set of teeth
over.
-- Verna Urbanski, 2006
Online Presentation Law:
- The reliability of any machinery is inversely proportional to the number
of people simultaneously watching it.
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.
If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's
throats."
-- Howard Aiken
Hofstadter's Law:
- It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take
Hofstadter's Law into account.
Technology is dominated by two groups of people:
- Those who manage what they do not understand
- Those who understand what they do not manage
We try harder
But the harder we try the worse it gets
So we try harder still
If you think the problem is bad now, wait till you see what we need to do to solve it.
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.
For each detected computer error there are at least 2 underlying human
errors,
one of which is thinking that the computer has made an
error.
As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.
-- Weisert
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