Even a computer can do only one thing at a time.
Oct 092014
Computing
I did not write a program to generate this book; I am that program.
Aug 152014
People put up with more from software than they ever would from humans.
Aug 142014
Relativity is uncertainty for infants, Heisenberg for children, and Gödel for adolescents. Uncertainty for adults is the halting problem.
May 192014
To eliminate uncertainty from data, put it in a chart or graph.
May 152014
We invent metrics partly to dignify arguments, but mostly to disguise them.
Apr 212014
Nothing dispels the illusion of planning and control like watching someone use your software.
Mar 212014
How vastly computers will improve our metaphors!
Feb 282014
The great divide will be crossed not when a computer can pass a Turing test, but when it can give one.
Jan 202014
Our ancestors believed in ghosts of people; we believe in multiple regression — ghosts of causes.
Oct 222013
Nobody loves an algorithm.