“You, Ran­dall Stephen­son, and your lazy stu­pid com­pany — you are the prob­lem. You are what’s wrong with this country.”

Been here, met these peo­ple, and laughed in their faces: “This is just like when teach­ers ask their stu­dents to model or code parts of a sys­tem that will be used in the teach­ers own research even­tu­ally. this is really bad for acad­e­mia in gen­eral. Never again pro­pose such things, please.” I’m look­ing at you, win­ning bid­der on the Erdös auction

“Most of Gow­ers rec­om­men­da­tions seem to focus on align­ment and cohe­sion, but point 8, for exam­ple, is about sep­a­ra­tion: one mem­ber should not jump onto another’s idea with a full proof until there is group sup­port for that. It would be worth­while to exam­ine the list in detail from the per­spec­tive of the three rules of flock­ing, I bet.”

“Dur­ing the night before the Christ­mas morn­ing on which Wedge-​​Wheskit was car­ried off to the asy­lum, in 1852, leav­ing behind a weep­ing wife and hys­ter­i­cal chil­dren, he appar­ently banged out the designs for a series of six cards, in a frenzy of Vic­to­rian sen­si­bil­ity. (He screamed “legs and lig­a­tures, the hideous lig­a­tures!” most piteously, accord­ing to an orderly who assisted in restrain­ing the patient.) Tuck and Sons com­mis­sioned their man, Haeckel, to add extra legs. Sales were as brisk as the creator’s mad­ness ran deep.”

“As I scan the list of pop­u­lar DSLRs that have been pur­chased it’s clear that Canon and Nikon lenses have dom­i­nated the list once again. How­ever instead of list­ing them in a mixed list in order of pop­u­lar­ity I thought it’d be more use­ful to list them by man­u­fac­turer. After­all – if you’ve got a Canon DSLR you’re not going to be inter­ested in a Nikon or Pen­tax lens.”

“Pick up a doc­u­ment, turn it over and see what’s on the back. If you find dia­grams, that sug­gest the need for clar­ity as peo­ple were draw­ing on it to explain things.”