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Zvonimir Rakamaric

Graduate Student
Department of Computer Science
University of British Columbia
2366 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
Canada

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Quotes and stuff...

"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." -- Michael Jordan

"I instantly realized that everything in my life I'd thought was unfixable was totally fixable - except for having just jumped." -- Ken Baldwin, a survivor of a Golden Gate suicide attempt

"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings." -- William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

"The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible." -- Arthur C. Clarke

"I love this fucking University, and this University loves fucking me."

"A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a workstation..."

"There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." -- C. A. R. Hoare

"The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay." -- C. A. R. Hoare

"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." -- Bjarne Stroustrup

"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this." -- Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads.

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.

"Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it." -- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), comment on virtual memory

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian W. Kernighan

"If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in." -- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!" -- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, Notes On Structured Programming, 1970

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth, March 22, 1977

"In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them." -- Johann von Neumann

"Don't do drugs kids. There is a time and place for everything. It's called college." -- Chef (South Park)

"Best way to prevent hangover is to stay drunk."

"Alcohol kills slowly. Who's in a hurry?"

"When life hands you lemons, ask for tequila and salt!"

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