Knuth is not God! God has already released TeX version 4.0.
Shlomi Fish
Knuth is not God! God has already released TeX version 4.0.
Shlomi Fish
If the ancient Greeks had invented UNIX, Murphy's Law would have been known
as Aristotle's Law.
Had they invented MS-Windows, Murphy's Law would have been known as the Law
of Socrates.
Shlomi Fish
The current solution offered by Nvidia may be the second-best solution. But
this is one case where the second best solution is not good enough.
Shlomi Fish in http://www.petitiononline.com/nvfoss/petition.html
Jewish Atheists are the only true Atheists. They beat the hell out of Goy
Atheists.
Shlomi Fish
He has a high degree of idealism, a high degree of stubbornness, and an even
higher degree of inability to distiniguish between the two.
Shlomi Fish
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> Shlomi,
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> Have you ever considered taking a Turing test? ;-)
>
Sure I did. I sat at one point of an IRC channel, and someone
tested me. Eventually it was discovered that I am a computer, but it
turned out the other side was an Eliza program. Strangely enough, I could
not detect that the latter fact was true.
Shlomi Fish in Hackers-IL message No. 2465
Sometimes I think Microsoft has more internal code than code it sells to the
outside.
Shlomi Fish
What happened to Christopher Michael Pilato?
Is he gone?
Is he gone for good?
Is he gone for better?
Is he gone for best?
Is he gone forever?
Will he return?
Who is Christopher Michael Pilato, anyway?
Shlomi Fish
Microsoft's slogan used to be "Microsoft - making it all make sense."
Today it should be: "Microsoft - making everything make sense. Ours."
Shlomi Fish
What happened to Christopher Michael Pilato?
Is he gone?
Is he gone for good?
Is he gone for better?
Is he gone for best?
Is he gone forever?
Will he return?
Who is Christopher Michael Pilato, anyway?
Shlomi Fish
Had I not been already insane, I would have long ago driven myself mad.
"The Enemy and how I Helped to Fight It"
Shlomi Fish
The government of the Supporter will finance your travel, and you will be
able to leave tomorrow morning. We would like to inform you of the following
facts: we cannot assure your safety during this travel. Furthermore,
despite your long service at the Organization and your constructive
proposal, we cannot say, wholeheartedly or halfheartedly, that we wish
to protect your safety. Likewise, we cannot guarantee that we would not
take actions that may harm you, indirectly or in a direct manner.
We hope to see you here very soon.
"The Enemy and how I Helped to Fight It"
Shlomi Fish
Knuth is not God! Unless you confuse him with Dijkstra.
Shlomi Fish in Hackers-IL message No. 2037
Oh! I wish you could see the look on his face! Actually, I would have also
liked to see the look on his face, but just then I woke up from the dream.
"The Enemy and how I Helped to Fight It"
Shlomi Fish
Objective philosophy is like a pencil sharpener for one's mind.
Shlomi Fish
“Except for that, I planned a political simulator that forecast the two World
Wars after I entered all the relevant data until the year 1000 AD.”
"Do you have a computer at home?"
"Oh no. At present the program is written on a paper. Don't ask how much
time it took me to take out all the bugs from it. But it was great fun!"
"The Enemy and how I Helped to Fight it"
Shlomi Fish
Let's interpret the past according to the present and not the present
according to the past.
Shlomi Fish
The first phrase that need to be taught when teaching a new language is how
to say "Do you speak English?".
The first thing that needs to be taught when teaching a new computer tool
is how to exit it.
Shlomi Fish
There is no IGLU Cabal! None of them could pass the Turing test. But
strangely enough a computer program they coded, could.
Shlomi Fish in Hackers-IL message No. 2465
There's no point in keeping an idea to yourself since there's a 10 to 1
chance that somebody already has it and will share it before you.
Shlomi Fish
“Likewise." Added the interviewer and said: ”Your answers were also very ...
unusual."
"Although this description cannot testify on their quality, I take it as a
compliment."
"The Enemy and how I Helped to Fight It"
Shlomi Fish
Shlomi, I'm considering naming a corollary of Godwyn's law after you -
any discussion of anything is over when you mention Freecell Solver.
Muli Ben-Yeuhuda on #kernelnewbies (irc.kernelnewbiews.org)
Muli: BTW, I think that any discussion only begins to gain momentum
when I mention Freecell Solver.
Shlomi Fish on #offtopic (irc.kernelnewbies.org)
Jack: Hi, Sophie!
Sophie: Don't "Hi, Sophie!" me.
Jack: Don't "Don't 'Hi, Sophie!' me" me!
Shlomi Fish
I don't believe in fairies. Oops! A fairy died.
I don't believe in fairies. Oops! Another fairy died.
Shlomi Fish
Hacker sees bug. Hacker fixes bug.
Shlomi Fish
A Jewish Deduction
The Bible dictates that "Thou shalt not seethe [= cook] a kid [= young goat]
in his mother's milk." To avoid any possibility of breaking that regulation,
the Jewish tradition ruled that it also applies to female goats, to mature
goats, and to the meat and milk of two completely unrelated goats. It is
also forbidden to eat the meat with fresh milk, and it applies to beef
and mutten as well (including mixing the milk and meat of two different
beasts). Finally, chicken, which are incapable of milk production, may not
be eaten along with any mammal's milk either.
We are fortunate that most mathematicians were not Jewish. Otherwise, it
would have been forbidden to divide by all numbers between -1 and 1.
Shlomi Fish
Tcl is LISP on drugs. Using strings instead of S-expressions for closures
is Evil with one of those gigantic E's you can find at the beginning of
chapters.
Shlomi Fish
(I am patenting issuing a TINIC with anything else but the phrase "There
is no IGLU Cabal!". The patent number is kept secret to avoid violating
the copyright of its text)
Shlomi Fish in Hackers-IL message No. 2021
C++ is complex, complexifying and complexified.
(With apologies to the Oxford English Dictionary).
Shlomi Fish
The American Lottery - all you need is a dollar and a dream. We will
take the dollar, but you can keep the dream.
Shlomi Fish