Mircea Bardac /random_thoughts

All that can be invented has been invented
– Charles Duell. Director U.S. Patent Office, 1899

This craziness for the radio will die soon
–Thomas Edison, 1922

There is a world market for about five computers
–Thomas Watson, IBM chairman, 1943

In the future, computers will not weight more than 1,5 tons
– Popular Mechanics, 1949

There is no reason for anyone to have a computer at home
– Ken Olsen, president of Digital, 1977

64K will be enough for anybody
– Bill Gates, president of Microsoft, 1981

A topic on the ArchLinux forums caught my attention today…

A compiler literally compiles a list of machine code instructions,
the object code, based on the source code. The resulting object code
is a ready-to-run program that is very fast, but which may crash the
computer.
– “Programming Language,” Microsoft Encarta 96 Encyclopedia.

Is that true?
Maybe in the Microsoft world… as one of the ArchLinux users said there…

Here’s a more adequate definition.

One of our Mathematics teacher told us that, whenever you are solving a technical problem and you get a (wrong) value for the sinus bigger than 1, you can always encourage yourself knowing that…

The industrial sinus can also be 2 (two).
- Octavian Stanasila

One of the students participating at the meeting with Cristian Tudor Popescu today made an interesting remark, highly appreciated both by the other students and by Cristian Tudor Popescu.

I can’t call reform the fact that I learn the same courses as my father had, but in PowerPoint.

Romanian:

Nu pot numi reforma faptul ca invat aceleasi cursuri pe care le-a facut si tatal meu, dar in PowerPoint.