Michele Spagnuolo
Computer Engineer
I am currently studying for a Master in Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.
My passions include web security, pentesting, coding (C(++)/Python/PHP/Perl/Java/Delphi), philosophy, books, photography, technical Forex trading...
Some assorted quotes... :)
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury, but a quality that decides between success and failure.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival.
W. Edwards Deming
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.
Søren Kierkegaard
People who say it can not be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
George Bernard Shaw
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein
You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.
William D. Tammeus
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which; he simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both.
Buddha
No evil can happen to a good man, neither in life nor after death.
Socrates (Plato, The Apology, Sec. 41)
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
George Bernard Shaw
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde
You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand and Stars
God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of the players, (i.e. everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
Terry Pratchett
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random numbers is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
Rules of Optimization: Rule 1: Don't do it. Rule 2 (for experts only): Don't do it yet.
M.A. Jackson
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
Stephen Vincent Bené
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to Basic; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
Edsger Dijkstra
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hybris.
Larry Wall
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
T. Edison
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.
Nikola Tesla
A notation is important for what it leaves out.
Joseph Stoy
Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and god? "Thou shalt" is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, "I will." "Thou shalt" lies in his way, sparkling like gold, an animal covered with scales; and on every scale shines a golden "thou shalt". Values, thousands of years old, shine on these scales; and thus speaks the mightiest of all the dragons: "All value of all things shines on me. All value has long been created, and I am all created value. Verily, there shall be no more 'I will.'" Thus speaks the dragon.
Friedrich Nietzsche
April 1st: This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three-hundred and sixty-four.
Mark Twain
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Terry Pratchett
We are all connected;
To each other, biologically
To the earth, chemically
To the rest of the universe atomically."We are all connected", Symphony of science
The only way to rectify our reasonings is to make them as tangible as those of the Mathematicians, so that we can find our error at a glance, and when there are disputes among persons, we can simply say: Let us calculate [calculemus], without further ado, to see who is right.
Gottfried Leibniz
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