Dr Wingnut

Month: May 2012

  • Adaptation

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    Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.H. G. Wells

  • How to fix the Congress

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    Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling:“I could end the deficit in 5 minutes,” he told CNBC.   “You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible…

  • Patience

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    Patience is a particular requirement.  Without it, you can destroy in an hour what it might take you weeks to repair.Charlie W. Shedd

  • Java versus Smalltalk

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    I heard this said in the early nineties, and I believe it is still true: “Java: Twice the complexity and half the productivity of Smalltalk.”Of course in those days, the performance of Smalltalk was not great, but if you could compile it into byte code and run it in the Java Virtual Machine like they…

  • Stronger

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    He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.Ben Jonson

  • Can you help rid the world of MS?

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    On Friday through Sunday, 8 – 10 June, 2012, I am going to be participating in the Multiple Sclerosis 150 Minnesota bicycle tour from Duluth to the Twin Cities.  The purpose of my participation is to raise funds for National MS research and support programs offered through the Minnesota Chapter of the MS Society.Riding is…

  • Reset

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    You must lose everything in order to gain anything.Brad Pitt