I was a twenty-seven-year-old college dropout before I finally met some real mathematicians and found that those people don’t even give a shit about calculus.
Neal Stephenson: Termination Shock
Schlagwort: Relevanz
Real and complex.
Always include what you forget.
It's far from obvious what's obvious.
Zettelpflicht.
Wählen muss sein. Auch wenn's schwer fällt.
Thinking in Unix.
I’m a practitioner. I’m off to write programs with any excuse or activity.
Mierskunde.
"There's only zero of you," said the Queen of the Ants. In ant arithmetic, there are only two numbers: Zero, which means anything less than a million, and Some. "You can't cooperate, so even if you were King, the title would be meaningless."
Neal Stephenson: The Diamond Age