We immediately recognize excess precision as a sign of lying, except in a statistic.
Jun 012017
Computing
I did not write a program to generate this book; I am that program.
May 192017
God paradoxes are only infinity paradoxes in clerical garb.
Mar 092017
We have a lot of use for computers, but they will not have much use for us.
Dec 232016
You don’t build machines smarter than the designer for the same reason you don’t write novels with characters smarter than the author.
Jul 112016
We measure first-order effects, guess at the second order, and the third order is like the third bottle of wine — all bets are off.
May 202016
It is said that people are impressionable: in fact they are programmable.
Apr 012016
The most useful lists contain one item.
Jan 192016
Principles of Software Diagnostics
1. The error is simple.
2. The error is your own.
Dec 242015
Paying authors by the word is like paying programmers by the line.
Dec 142015
The nodes do not intend the network.