Bill the Lizard

"If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative." — Arthur C. Clarke

The Ecological Impact of High-performance Computing in Astrophysics [PDF] arxiv.org/pdf/2009.11295…

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform." — Ada Lovelace

"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." — Steve Wozniak

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." — Benjamin Franklin

"There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers." — Steven Levy

The 9 Deep Learning Papers You Need To Know About adeshpande3.github.io/The-9-Deep-Lea…

Letters between John Backus and Edsger Dijkstra, 1979 @acidflask/this-guys-arrogance-takes-your-breath-away-5b903624ca5f" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@acidflask/thi…

"Software being 'Done' is like lawn being 'Mowed.'" — Jim Benson

How to Build Good Software csc.gov.sg/articles/how-t…

Falsehoods programmers believe about time infiniteundo.com/post/253269996…

Actors: A model of concurrent computation in distributed systems, G. Agha, 1985 [PDF] apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA15…

"Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet." — Chris Heilmann

What should every programmer know about security? stackoverflow.com/q/2794016/1288

Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

8 Data Science Skills That Every Employee Needs amplitude.com/blog/2016/11/1…

A Few Useful Things to Know About Machine Learning (2012) [PDF] homes.cs.washington.edu/~pedrod/papers…

"Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law." — Douglas Hofstadter

"Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer." — Donald Knuth

"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." — C.A.R. Hoare