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“The three works can be seen as the earliest known 'Internet memes.'”
https://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/apr/30/emoticon-emoji-text-ii-ascii/
https://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/apr/30/emoticon-emoji-text-ii-ascii/
August 28, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“The three works can be seen as the earliest known 'Internet memes.'”
https://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/apr/30/emoticon-emoji-text-ii-ascii/
https://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/apr/30/emoticon-emoji-text-ii-ascii/
“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.”
#JulesVerne
#JulesVerne
August 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.”
#JulesVerne
#JulesVerne
“I mix mathematics and art every day.”
#BenoitMandelbrot
#BenoitMandelbrot
August 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“I mix mathematics and art every day.”
#BenoitMandelbrot
#BenoitMandelbrot
“One of the key tools of science remains detailed visual observation.”
http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0002nh
http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0002nh
August 25, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“One of the key tools of science remains detailed visual observation.”
http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0002nh
http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0002nh
“Understanding perception is critical to effective visualization design.”
#Heer and #Bostock
https://www.cs.kent.edu/~javed/class-P2P12F/papers-2012/PAPER2012-2010-MTurk-CHI.pdf
#Heer and #Bostock
https://www.cs.kent.edu/~javed/class-P2P12F/papers-2012/PAPER2012-2010-MTurk-CHI.pdf
August 24, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“Understanding perception is critical to effective visualization design.”
#Heer and #Bostock
https://www.cs.kent.edu/~javed/class-P2P12F/papers-2012/PAPER2012-2010-MTurk-CHI.pdf
#Heer and #Bostock
https://www.cs.kent.edu/~javed/class-P2P12F/papers-2012/PAPER2012-2010-MTurk-CHI.pdf
“Efficiency of computation is not the same as efficiency of understanding.”
#ConcreteMathematics
http://t.co/of65S1F1dZ
#ConcreteMathematics
http://t.co/of65S1F1dZ
August 23, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“Efficiency of computation is not the same as efficiency of understanding.”
#ConcreteMathematics
http://t.co/of65S1F1dZ
#ConcreteMathematics
http://t.co/of65S1F1dZ
“The idea that the amount of information is an important determinant of beauty has a long history in aesthetics.”
https://pages.ucsd.edu/~pwinkiel/reber-schwarz-winkielman-beauty-PSPR-2004.pdf
https://pages.ucsd.edu/~pwinkiel/reber-schwarz-winkielman-beauty-PSPR-2004.pdf
August 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“The idea that the amount of information is an important determinant of beauty has a long history in aesthetics.”
https://pages.ucsd.edu/~pwinkiel/reber-schwarz-winkielman-beauty-PSPR-2004.pdf
https://pages.ucsd.edu/~pwinkiel/reber-schwarz-winkielman-beauty-PSPR-2004.pdf
“I don't think object-oriented programming is a structuring paradigm that meets my standards of elegance.”
#Dijkstra
#Dijkstra
August 21, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“I don't think object-oriented programming is a structuring paradigm that meets my standards of elegance.”
#Dijkstra
#Dijkstra
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
#Picasso
#Picasso
August 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
#Picasso
#Picasso
“What can be done? Say who you are, really say it in your life and in your work.”
#CharlieKaufman
http://guru.bafta.org/charlie-kaufman-screenwriters-lecture-video
#CharlieKaufman
http://guru.bafta.org/charlie-kaufman-screenwriters-lecture-video
August 19, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“What can be done? Say who you are, really say it in your life and in your work.”
#CharlieKaufman
http://guru.bafta.org/charlie-kaufman-screenwriters-lecture-video
#CharlieKaufman
http://guru.bafta.org/charlie-kaufman-screenwriters-lecture-video
“Metalinguistic abstraction — establishing new languages — plays an important role in all branches of engineering design.”
#SICP
#SICP
August 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“Metalinguistic abstraction — establishing new languages — plays an important role in all branches of engineering design.”
#SICP
#SICP
“The average customer of the computing industry has been served so poorly that he expects his system to crash.”
#Dijkstra
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/EWD1304.html
#Dijkstra
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/EWD1304.html
August 17, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“The average customer of the computing industry has been served so poorly that he expects his system to crash.”
#Dijkstra
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/EWD1304.html
#Dijkstra
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/EWD1304.html
“For a sucessful technology, honesty must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled.”
#Feynman
#Feynman
August 16, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“For a sucessful technology, honesty must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled.”
#Feynman
#Feynman
“You have a right to stop coding, everything you type will be used against you during debugging.”
#MaximeChevalierBoisvert
#MaximeChevalierBoisvert
August 15, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“You have a right to stop coding, everything you type will be used against you during debugging.”
#MaximeChevalierBoisvert
#MaximeChevalierBoisvert
“The program itself is the only complete description of what the program will do.”
#PJDavis
#PJDavis
August 14, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“The program itself is the only complete description of what the program will do.”
#PJDavis
#PJDavis
“Knives still come with sharp ends. Instruments are still hard for beginners to play.”
https://aphyr.com/posts/287-asynchronous-replication-with-failover
https://aphyr.com/posts/287-asynchronous-replication-with-failover
August 13, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“Knives still come with sharp ends. Instruments are still hard for beginners to play.”
https://aphyr.com/posts/287-asynchronous-replication-with-failover
https://aphyr.com/posts/287-asynchronous-replication-with-failover
“I see art as communication.”
Italo Calvino
https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/06/10/italo-calvino-on-writing/
Italo Calvino
https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/06/10/italo-calvino-on-writing/
August 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“I see art as communication.”
Italo Calvino
https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/06/10/italo-calvino-on-writing/
Italo Calvino
https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/06/10/italo-calvino-on-writing/
“Nothing is more fertile than these illicit liaisons, nothing gives more pleasure to the connoisseur.”
#EdwardFrenkel, Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
#EdwardFrenkel, Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
August 11, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“Nothing is more fertile than these illicit liaisons, nothing gives more pleasure to the connoisseur.”
#EdwardFrenkel, Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
#EdwardFrenkel, Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
“The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.”
#DonaldKnuth
#DonaldKnuth
August 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.”
#DonaldKnuth
#DonaldKnuth
“If a job's worth doing, it's worth writing a script to do it for you.”
Unknown
Unknown
August 9, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“If a job's worth doing, it's worth writing a script to do it for you.”
Unknown
Unknown
“The choice of Lisp was a bold one: it alone has been responsible for the rapid development of tremendous function in #Multics #Emacs.”
https://hack.org/mc/texts/multics-emacs.txt
https://hack.org/mc/texts/multics-emacs.txt
August 8, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“The choice of Lisp was a bold one: it alone has been responsible for the rapid development of tremendous function in #Multics #Emacs.”
https://hack.org/mc/texts/multics-emacs.txt
https://hack.org/mc/texts/multics-emacs.txt
“I have no advice for the fucking kid that wants to play everyone else's music and be famous for it.”
#Deadmau5
#Deadmau5
August 7, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“I have no advice for the fucking kid that wants to play everyone else's music and be famous for it.”
#Deadmau5
#Deadmau5
“We humans are not very good at identifying the heuristics we ourselves use.”
#JohnMcCarthy
#JohnMcCarthy
August 6, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“We humans are not very good at identifying the heuristics we ourselves use.”
#JohnMcCarthy
#JohnMcCarthy
Two remarkable lines of Haskell:
sins = int coss
coss = 1 - int sins
#DougMcIlroy
https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/powser.html
sins = int coss
coss = 1 - int sins
#DougMcIlroy
https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/powser.html
August 5, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Two remarkable lines of Haskell:
sins = int coss
coss = 1 - int sins
#DougMcIlroy
https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/powser.html
sins = int coss
coss = 1 - int sins
#DougMcIlroy
https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/powser.html
“I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe.”
#BuckminsterFuller
#BuckminsterFuller
August 4, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe.”
#BuckminsterFuller
#BuckminsterFuller