Dr Wingnut

Month: April 2009

  • Artificial Intelligence

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    Machine intelligence and human intelligence are not comparable (Computer, Nov. 2003, pp. 120, 118-119).  Machine intelligence is a computational phenomenon, human intelligence a social one.  Computing professionals do great social harm when they portray their machinery as anything but tools to amplify human accomplishment and originality.Neville Homes, Computer, March 2009, page 99

  • AGP – (A Good Point)

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    Trust the computer industry to shorten “Year 2000” to Y2K.  It was this kind of thinking that caused the problem in the first place.via email from Lynn Showalter, Tuesday, January 26, 1999 4:12 PM

  • Striving

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    Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.Louis L’Amour

  • The Evolution of a Computer Programmer, never forget, Keep it simple

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    High School/Junior High 10 PRINT “HELLO WORLD” 20 END First year in College program Hello(input, output) begin writeln(‘Hello World’) end. Senior year in College (defun hello (print (cons ‘Hello (list ‘World)))) New professional #include void main(void) { char *message[] = {“Hello “, “World”}; int i; for(i = 0; i < 2; ++i) printf(“%s”, message[i]); printf(“\n”);…

  • Wonder

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    Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms.  No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves.Herbert W. Boyer, co-founder of Genentech

  • Life

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    There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.George Santayana

  • Beauty

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    When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty.  I think only how to solve the problem.  But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.R. Buckminster Fuller