February 2012
4 posts
Engineer who tried to halt Challenger launch dies... →
The night before the 1986 disaster, Roger Boisjoly and four others argued that joints in the space shuttle’s boosters couldn’t withstand a cold-weather launch and would lead to a catastrophic failure of the casing.
January 2012
1 post
“My idea was to bribe the working classes, or shall I say, to win them over, to...”
– Otto von Bismarck, quoted in Marching to Bismarck’s Drummer: The Origins of the Modern Welfare State
December 2011
13 posts
“A being who does not know automatically what is true or false, cannot know...”
– Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness: The Objectivist Ethics
“Nothing is given to man on earth except a potential and the material on which to...”
– Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness: The Objectivist Ethics
“Hiroe: he was dressed as a big fuckin devil
Hiroe: like, HUGE costume
Hiroe:...”
– Going down
“When choice enters into our lives, where formerly we felt there were only...”
– Stefan Molyneux, On Truth: The Tyranny of Illusion
November 2011
7 posts
“[The first contribution was by] Vitaly Mayatskikh, a guy from distant Siberia,...”
РMartin S̼strik
“The reason [MINIX] didn’t dominate the world has to do with one mistake I...”
– Andy Tanenbaum, interviewed by LinuxFr.org
October 2011
7 posts
“Birds can fly, unless they are penguins and ostriches, or if they happen to be...”
– Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind
September 2011
5 posts
“Great software, likewise, requires a fanatical devotion to beauty. If you look...”
– Paul Graham, Hackers and Painters
“[The] power of accurate observation [is] commonly called cynicism by those who...”
– George Bernard Shaw
“Leaders are not what many people think—people with huge crowds following...”
– John Holt, Teach Your Own
August 2011
3 posts
“[A researcher] conservatively estimates that 614,400 memory errors [due to...”
– Bit-squatting - DNS hijacking without exploitation
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Anarchism is a political philosophy which considers the state undesirable,...”
– The Guardian: Anarchists should be reported, advises Westminster anti-terror police
July 2011
4 posts
“Whenever someone gives you a problem, think graphs. They are the most...”
– Steve Yegge
“The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead...”
– Early FORTRAN manual for Xerox Computers
June 2011
3 posts
May 2011
3 posts
