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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word ‘frustration’.
Alan Jay Perlis (1922-1990) US computer scientist

“Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it–don’t cheat with it.”
“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”
“An intelligent man is […]

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it. ~ Anais Nin

There’s an article on Slashdot about sysadmins reading the bosses’ mail.
Those of us who have done system support understand how this can happen. Because I’ve been mostly on the support side of the fence for years, it’s surprising to me how many don’t understand the implications of being a sysadmin.
One of the commentators sums up […]

Thus, the task is, not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.
Erwin Schroedinger (1887-1961), Physicist

Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Mark Twain (1835-1910), US writer

“What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can’t reread a phone call.”
Liz Carpenter (1920) US feminist writer

“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson