Drowning in inspiration
It's far past bedtime, especially if you're meeting with your boss' boss' boss tomorrow, or possibly some variation on that involving more possessives.
But the following quotes deserve remembering, and I couldn't bear to forget them.
"Conditioned from the cradle, unceasingly distracted, mesmerized systematically, their uniformed victims would go on obediently marching and countermarching, go on, always and everywhere, killing and dying with the perfect docility of trained poodles." - Aldous Huxley
"History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma." - Huxley
"What happens is the senseless ambivalence of history - sadism versus duty, or (incomparably worse) sadism as duty..." - More Huxley ("Sadism Versus/As Duty" would be an awesome band name.)
On the notion of an axiomatic basis for programming: "I expected that its results would not find widespread practical application in industry until after I reached retirement age. These expectations led me in 1968 to move from an industrial to an academic career. And when I retired in 1999, both the positive and the negative expectations had been entirely fulfilled." - C.A.R. Hoare
But the following quotes deserve remembering, and I couldn't bear to forget them.
"Conditioned from the cradle, unceasingly distracted, mesmerized systematically, their uniformed victims would go on obediently marching and countermarching, go on, always and everywhere, killing and dying with the perfect docility of trained poodles." - Aldous Huxley
"History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma." - Huxley
"What happens is the senseless ambivalence of history - sadism versus duty, or (incomparably worse) sadism as duty..." - More Huxley ("Sadism Versus/As Duty" would be an awesome band name.)
On the notion of an axiomatic basis for programming: "I expected that its results would not find widespread practical application in industry until after I reached retirement age. These expectations led me in 1968 to move from an industrial to an academic career. And when I retired in 1999, both the positive and the negative expectations had been entirely fulfilled." - C.A.R. Hoare