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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · Aug 28

“The three works can be seen as the earliest known 'Internet memes.'”
https://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/apr/30/emoticon-emoji-text-ii-ascii/

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · Aug 27

“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.”
#JulesVerne

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · Aug 26

“I mix mathematics and art every day.”
#BenoitMandelbrot

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · Aug 25

“One of the key tools of science remains detailed visual observation.”
http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0002nh

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · Aug 24

“Understanding perception is critical to effective visualization design.”
#Heer and #Bostock
https://www.cs.kent.edu/~javed/class-P2P12F/papers-2012/PAPER2012-2010-MTurk-CHI.pdf

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · Aug 23

“Efficiency of computation is not the same as efficiency of understanding.”
#ConcreteMathematics
http://t.co/of65S1F1dZ

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · Aug 22

“The idea that the amount of information is an important determinant of beauty has a long history in aesthetics.”
https://pages.ucsd.edu/~pwinkiel/reber-schwarz-winkielman-beauty-PSPR-2004.pdf

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · Aug 21

“I don't think object-oriented programming is a structuring paradigm that meets my standards of elegance.”
#Dijkstra

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · Aug 20

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
#Picasso

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · Aug 19

“What can be done? Say who you are, really say it in your life and in your work.”
#CharlieKaufman
http://guru.bafta.org/charlie-kaufman-screenwriters-lecture-video

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · Aug 18

“Metalinguistic abstraction — establishing new languages — plays an important role in all branches of engineering design.”
#SICP

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · Aug 17

“The average customer of the computing industry has been served so poorly that he expects his system to crash.”
#Dijkstra
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/EWD1304.html

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · Aug 16

“For a sucessful technology, honesty must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled.”
#Feynman

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · Aug 15

“You have a right to stop coding, everything you type will be used against you during debugging.”
#MaximeChevalierBoisvert

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · Aug 14

“The program itself is the only complete description of what the program will do.”
#PJDavis

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · Aug 13

“Knives still come with sharp ends. Instruments are still hard for beginners to play.”
https://aphyr.com/posts/287-asynchronous-replication-with-failover

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · Aug 12

“I see art as communication.”
Italo Calvino
https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/06/10/italo-calvino-on-writing/

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · Aug 11

“Nothing is more fertile than these illicit liaisons, nothing gives more pleasure to the connoisseur.”
#EdwardFrenkel, Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · Aug 10

“The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.”
#DonaldKnuth

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · Aug 9

“If a job's worth doing, it's worth writing a script to do it for you.”
Unknown

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · Aug 8

“The choice of Lisp was a bold one: it alone has been responsible for the rapid development of tremendous function in #Multics #Emacs.”
https://hack.org/mc/texts/multics-emacs.txt

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · Aug 7

“I have no advice for the fucking kid that wants to play everyone else's music and be famous for it.”
#Deadmau5

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · Aug 6

“We humans are not very good at identifying the heuristics we ourselves use.”
#JohnMcCarthy

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · Aug 5

Two remarkable lines of Haskell:
sins = int coss
coss = 1 - int sins
#DougMcIlroy
https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/powser.html

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · Aug 4

“I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe.”
#BuckminsterFuller

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