brick quote(s), #7

duminică, 15 mart. 2009, 19:21

Light bulb screw, Bitwise shift:

Q:    How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? A:    None.  The Universe spins the bulb, and the Zen master stays out of the way.
Q:    How many bureaucrats does it take to screw in a light bulb? A:    Two.  One to assure everyone that everything possible is being done while the other screws the bulb into the water faucet.
Q:    How many IBM CPU’s does it take to do a logical right shift? A:    33.  1 to hold the bits and 32 to push the register.

via fortune.

brick quote #6

miercuri, 31 dec. 2008, 00:11

Well, anyway, I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that like most books, it had too many words.  The plot was the same one that all James Bond books have: An evil person tries to blow up the world, but James Bond kills him and his henchmen and makes love to several attractive women.  There, that’s it: 24 words.  But the guy who wrote the book took *thousands* of words to say it. Or consider „The Brothers Karamazov”, by the famous Russian alcoholic Fyodor Dostoyevsky.  It’s about these two brothers who kill their father. Or maybe only one of them kills the father.  It’s impossible to tell because what they mostly do is talk for nearly a thousand pages.  If all Russians talk as much as the Karamazovs did, I don’t see how they found time to become a major world power. I’m told that Dostoyevsky wrote „The Brothers Karamazov” to raise the question of whether there is a God.  So why didn’t he just come right out and say: „Is there a God? It sure beats the heck out of me.” Other famous works could easily have been summarized in a few words:
  • „Moby Dick” — Don’t mess around with large whales because they symbolize nature and will kill you.
  • „A Tale of Two Cities” — French people are crazy.

Dave Barry, via fortune.

brick quote #5

luni, 3 mart. 2008, 23:07

We suffer a lot in our society from loneliness. So much of our life is an attempt to not be lonely: ‘Let’s talk to each other; let’s do things together so we won’t be lonely.’ And yet inevitably, we are really alone in these human forms. We can pretend; we can entertain each other; but that’s about the best we can do. When it comes to the actual experience of life, we’re very much alone; and to expect anyone else to take away our loneliness is asking too much.

Ajahn Sumedho

Obsessive song of the week: Pain of Salvation – Iter Impius

(mai mult…)

proverb românesc.

miercuri, 20 feb. 2008, 18:59

Zicalele din bătrâni au un caracter universal, iar valoarea lor de adevăr nu poate fi contestată sub nici o formă. Astfel, după cum se vorbeşte în popor,

Capul face, curul trage.

Se pare că în cazul multora (da, despre tine era vorba) cele două personaje de mai sus ajung să facă schimb de roluri.

brick quote(s), #4

duminică, 4 nov. 2007, 20:17

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
People are supposed to fuck. It is our main purpose in life, and all those other activities—playing the trumpet, vacuuming carpets, reading mystery novels, eating chocolate mousse—are just ways of passing the time until you can fuck again.
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