“Randomness in TCS is like time in physics, numbers in mathematics: everyone knows what they are, and only experts find them hard to understand”
Wén Shào
“Try to help your dad or grandpa with word files and answer their questions? Whatever you do you will still get a look saying, oh boy we are wasting money on your CS Engineering.”
Mirtunjay Upadhyay
“All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end goal. Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger, and the young are always optimists. But however the selection process works,the result is indisputable: "This time it will surely run," or "I just found the last bug."”
Frederick Brooks
“Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . . . Is this not form?”
Giacomo Puccini
“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we cant decipher. What we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables. There is only the inevitable.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education”
“I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster, or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of death from being a total surprise.”
