## updated: 20 January 2005 ## ``Mechanical Engineering is like looking for a black cat in a lighted room. Chemical Engineering is like looking for a black cat in a dark room. Software Engineering is like looking for a black cat in a dark room in which there is no cat. Systems Engineering is like looking for a black cat in a dark room in which there is no cat and some one yells, "I got it!"'' [Origin unknown] -- Who wrote Linux kernel? Actually, I think it was Kernel Sanders. "Dr. Eldarion" -- "There are only 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't." (Unknown) -- print STDOUT q Just another Perl Hacker, unless $spring (first PerlPoem by Larry Wall inspired by Randals JAPH signatures) -- It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all... :-) Larry Wall in 10160@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV -- Olde Quote: C++ is to C as lung cancer is to lung. -- I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, "What is that, swearing?" Larry Wall in <199806181642.JAA10629@wall.org> -- "When you put people in the box marked them, you can kick them around a lot more easily than when they're in the box marked us. So I think it's useful to try and empty the box marked them and fill up the box marked us." --Peter Gabriel -- when you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts. (Larry Ellison) -- In simplest term, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes. (John Erskine) -- Working with people is difficult, but not impossible. (Peter Drucker) -- Five reasons to travel: to leave one's troubles behind one, to earn a living, to acquire learning, to practice good manners, and to meet honourable men. (Sayyid Abdulla) -- All engineers use mathematics in their work. Software engineers do not use mathematics in their work. What should we conclude from this axiom? -- Prediction is very hard... especially when it's about the future. (Yogi Berra) -- It doesn't matter who you are. Most of the smartest people work for somebody else. (Bill Joy) -- Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. (Pablo Picasso) -- Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. (Plato) -- Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Begin it now. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. (Goethe) -- What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. (Crowfoot) -- Nature does nothing uselessly (Aristotle) -- Do not follow ehere the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path. And leave a trail. (Anonymous) -- The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. (Marcel Proust) -- Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. (Marie Curie) -- A man's reach should exceed his grasps, or what's a heaven for? (Robert Browning) -- Wonder is the basis of worship (Thosam Carlyle) -- Aren't all the good ideas taken already? -- ideas are the asset these days since it leads to innovation -- The largest legal creation of wealth in the history of the planet (John Doerr on Silicon Valley) -- Back in 1921, Thorstein Vablen (author of "The Engineers and The Price System") had predicted that engineers would one day rule the US economy -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic (Arthur Clarke) -- Why do I work in this industry? It's because I believe that a small number of people can change the world through technology. That belief is incredibly seductive. (Eric Schmidt, CEO, Novell) -- There are more venture guys doing more deals with more dollars at higher prices than ever before. In the Internet boom there is just more of everything. (Roger McNamee, Integral Capital Partners) -- John Doerr is to business what Bill Gates is to software (Stewart Alsop, general partner, New Enterprise Associates) -- We sell stocks at whatever price the market will bear on whatever day - that's our job (Micahel McCaffery, CEO, BancBoston Robertson Stephens) -- The only company that has a real Y2K problem is Yahoo, because the year 2000 is when all its strategic advertising and placement agreements expire! (Bob Kagle, Benchmark Capital Partners) -- "One word: Adrenalize!" the entire copy of an advertisement in the Stanford Daily recruiting engineers to a firm in Silicon Valley -- Out technology is based on sand (silicon), glass (fiber), and air (wireless)