How Not To Begin A Sentence
Posted 16th May 2008 at 6:25pm by M1ke, tagged as Quotes | Commenting Closed
Were you here when I set fire to the...
Courtesy of Rose. I worry for the safety of my house, I really do.
On Programming
Posted 21st December 2007 at 3:12pm by M1ke, tagged as Quotes | Commenting Closed
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
A quote from: Rick Cook
Don't Look Back
Posted 21st March 2007 at 11:25am by M1ke, tagged as Quotes | Commenting Closed
One of the nicest things about the Google Personalised Homepage which most people should be using is the Quote of the Day module. Basically it shows some quotes from an internet database and they change each day. Today's made me chuckle, so here it is:
Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.
- Evan Davis
- Link to Quote of the Day
Geography Students
Posted 25th January 2007 at 2:29pm by M1ke, tagged as Quotes | Commenting Closed
Isn't Omaha in Ireland?
-Chloe
Then they go and wonder why we say their course is all based around colouring in?
One Percent
Posted 19th January 2007 at 7:30pm by M1ke, tagged as Quotes | Commenting Closed
A quote I heard the other night from our college bar steward:
If you get 41%, you've wasted 1% of your time.
Now whilst I'm not directly of the view that you should only do the bare minimum to succeed, because mistakes and accidents happen, it does throw into the light the idea that sometimes doing things to the extreme is wasting our time. There is a question of what exactly a worthwhile way of spending your time is, and that's something we have to accept different people feel differently about. Where it comes in as far as academia goes is surely that you don't necessarily need to be focusing all your energy on getting marks in a course. As long as you can achieve what is necessary then you would be better off furthering a different area or pursuing another interest, increasing the scope of your activities.
To be honest when the guy made the quote it was probably just a reason why you could have the time to go to the bar every night - it's nice to see where following the same train of thought leads you. As long as it's not to a chubby maths lecturer with a beard brandishing a long wooden pole and claiming it's a dirty great vector.