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cyberu

  1. If you wouldn't wake up early to do something, you probably shouldn't stay up late for it either.
  2. They say that Apple is a cult but I'm MacGnostic.
  3. Functional programming is like describing your problem to a mathematician. Imperative programming is like giving instructions to an idiot.
  4. The modern security perimeter has become softer, porous and chewy.
  5. Atheism is a violation of Indonesian law under the founding principles of the country and is punishable by 5 years of jail.
  6. Software behavior is very hard to conclusively analyze.
  7. 7^3 months old.
  8. High intelligence does not make one immune to biases.
  9. Operational success means running the same race faster. Strategic success means running a different race, one you set yourself up to win.
  10. HTML5 means 5 times more web breaches.
  11. An operating system is a poor attempt to include what was overlooked in the design of a programming language.
  12. A system tends to grow in terms of complexity rather than simplification until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.
  13. German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity per hour, equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity.
  14. The people who made the real money in the gold-rush were those who sold the maps, tools and clothing. That's how Levi's got started.
  15. Better products don't win. Better perceived products win.
  16. It cost $9000/min to fight WW2 and $22000/min to fight the Vietnam War. It costs $7mil/minute to air Super bowl commercials.
  17. There is no way to define desirable behavior for a sufficiently complex computer system.
  18. People talk of killing time while time quietly kills them.
  19. The errors of a theory are rarely found in what it asserts explicitly, but what in it hides or what it ignores or tacitly assumes.
  20. A political company is one where people choose their words and actions based on what they want others to react not on what they really think