Tech Junkie Quotes

[quadz]

On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. -- Charles Babbage


Since the invention of the microprocessor, the cost of moving a byte of information around has fallen on the order of 10-million-fold. Never before in the human history has any product or service gotten 10 million times cheaper-much less in the course of a couple decades. That's as if a 747 plane, once at $150 million a piece, could now be bought for about the price of a large pizza. -- Michael Rothschild


Another type of backup storage uses a number of large, thin discs (about three feet in diameter), with magnetic coating on the surfaces. -- Douglas Engelbart in 1962


If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything. -- Fred Menger


The plural of anecdote is not data. -- Frank Kotsonis


In the world of systems design, programs and data are the scissor blades working together to form the broader class -- software. Lacking either blade, computers couldn't cut through problems -- yet for many people, software is synonymous with programs. -- Tom Gilb


Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. -- Andrew Tannenbaum

[jägermonsta]

"It seems you have an ID-10-T error on your system"

"Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair"

 

[[BTF]Defiant!]

Office work environment compared with prison.. you might be surprised!


In prison they spend the majority of their time in a 8' x 10'cell.  At work, I spend most of my time in a 6' x 6' cube.

In prison they get three meals a day.  At work I only get a break for one meal and I have to pay for that one.

In prison you get time off for good behavior.  At work I get rewarded for good behavior with more work.

At work I must wear an ID badge at all times.  In prison they provide you with clothing with the ID conveniently sewn onto the clothes.

At work there is a dress standard but I must buy my own clothes.  In prison there is a dress standard, but they supply the clothes.

At work I must carry around a security card and unlock and open all the doors myself.  In prison a guard locks and unlocks all the doors for me.

In prison they can watch TV and play games.  At work I can get fired for watching TV and playing games.

In prison they will pay my way through school to learn a new career and give me time to do it.  At work they will pay for my education but I must do it on my own time.

In prison they have exercise rooms that they allow you to use almost whenever you want.  At work we have an exercise room that you can use but it must be on your time.

In prison I can fall asleep on the job and no serious consequences comes from my actions.  At work if I fall asleep on the job I get put on the
next RIF list.

In prison they ball and chain you when you go somewhere.  At work you are just ball and chained.

In prison you have full medical coverage with no deductibles.  At work, you get partial coverage and pay all the deductibles.

In prison all expenses are paid by the tax payer, with no work on their part.  At work, you get to pay all the expenses to go to work, and then deduct the taxes from your salary to pay for the prisoners.

[[BTF]Defiant!]

Some older quotes I had laying around..

 
    Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes
less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.  For
example, there are no solids in the universe.  There's not
even a suggestion of a solid.  There are no absolute
continuums.  There are no surfaces.  There are no straight
lines. 
      - R. Buckminster Fuller


    The best thing about the Internet is that it absorbs the attention of
       tens of thousands of people whom everyone would like to keep
       off the streets and away from our children.

                                        -- Garrison Keillor October 8, 1997


    Without theory there are no questions.  Without questions there is no
       learning.
               -- W. Edwards Deming in regard to a difference between training and education.




    And while it is an unfortunate modern misconception that science
        is somehow divorced from culture, it is, in fact, a vital
        part of what makes up our civilization.  Our explorations
        of the universe represent some of the most remarkable discoveries
        of the human intellect, and it is a pity that they are not
        shared among as broad an audience as enjoys the inspirations of
        great literature, or painting, or music.
                                         -- Lawrence M. Krauss


    MSDOS -- the Andrew Dice Clay of operating systems.
                                         -- taken from Dave Sinck's .sig

    Computer suppliers and drug dealers are the only people that refer
        to their customers as users.     -- Paul Calame


    The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be enraged.
                                         -- I'm not sure, I think it may be Albert Einstein..



    ...when the Pythagorens did discover a dodecahedron, they
    guarded it as shuch a great secret that they actually strangled
    one of their members who dared publicize its existance.  They took
    their math seriously in those days.
                                         -- Richard Borchers, Field Metal Winner, Sci Am, Nov 98.


    He had that rare weird electricity about him-- that
extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a
person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving "normally." 
      - Hunter S. Thompson 
      - Fear and Loathing '72


Everything one can do can be imagined by somebody.  Who's dreams are you to fulfill?      --Defiant!

[kren.Z]

"To every ω-consistent recursive class κ of formulae there correspond recursive class signs r, such that neither v Gen r nor Neg (v Gen r) belongs to Flg (κ) (where v is the free variable of r)."
-Kurt Godel


"Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity."
-Alan Turing

"Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena."
-Leonhard Euler

[[BTF] Reflex]

Garrison Keillor rocks,  I wish he was my grandpa

[Pr0c3550r]

"It seems you have an ID-10-T error on your system"

"Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair"

 

Yeah, check the nut behind the keyboard.

 

[jägermonsta]

This isn't really a quote, it's an ad I just found on craigslist for an IT job... it's freakin awesome. http://nh.craigslist.org/sad/559163508.html

[reaper]

i don't think i'd want a job from craigslists, company can't afford to post on dice, or monster?

[jägermonsta]

i don't think i'd want a job from craigslists, company can't afford to post on dice, or monster?

umm Fidelity posts jobs on craigs list? who would want to hire you anyhow?

[quadz]

  Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
  Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
  by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -- Brian Kernighan

[QwazyWabbit]

  Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
  Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
  by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -- Brian Kernighan

Hard not to love it when it rings so true.



Write code as if an idiot will be debugging it a year from now.
A year from now that idiot will be you. -- QwazyWabbit


Curse the smartass that wrote this impenetrable piece of code last year.

QW

[reaper]

ugg, can't remember the quote or who said it; although I know it was someone famous : )

"i'm very suprised the internet works at all"

it's not like everything was designed, and all problems were and are solved.

and another, very true quote

"the best hackers are the ones you haven't heard about"

just had to stop a 600megabit per second distributed denial of service attack, against a foreign news site, very fun.  the traffic was fragmented udp traffic (was really bogus, but I think the ip header had udp as the protocol).  the routers don't like fragmented traffic so much, and at one point the attack was 600mbps, that's a lot of traffic.  it really disturbs me.  the attack was directed at one site, so I could advertise the network with special BGP attributes and the upstream providers (with huge pipes) block the IP.  still takes the site down, just not everything.  but i have to wonder, what if the attack was to all our IP space.  just by pure bandwidth we are done.

only two solutions really, send traffic somewhere else first, where they filter it for you, like the compan prolexic, or hunt the sources and block them upstream.  but that could be hundreds of sources, who knows, and isn't easy to work with different providers and government.

another interesting thing you can do, is, instead of having providers blackhole the traffic (route it to nowhere), have them route it out a different circuit that doesn't end up at the hosts.  then you can analyze the traffic, and work with security operations at the providers to analyze the attack, and possibly catch the attackers.  although catching them is pretty much impossible, but hey you never know.  it's so many man hours, and you know with tor, and proxying connections and all..

kids get ouf of the basement and get a job!@

[reaper]

fyi, there a solutions like anycast, where space is advertised from geographicaly diverse locations

obviously that's not be all and end all , and it's money

[kren.Z]

reaper, it seems that you're already ahead of the game. 
http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/cms/8996/9042.aspx