Notes on books I read, talks I watch, articles I study, and papers I love

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"The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user." ― C.A.R. Hoare

"Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs." ― James Gosling

"There is no friend as loyal as a book." ― Ernest Hemingway

"But remember this, Japanese boy... airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality." ― Hayao Miyazaki, The Wind R…

"You've baked a really lovely cake, but then you've used dog shit for frosting." ― Steve Jobs

"Software is like entropy: It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the Second Law of Thermodynamics; i.e., it always increases." ― Norman Augustine

"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen." ― Edward V. Berard

"I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there." ― David Mitchell

"Truth can only be found in one place: the code." ― Robert C. Martin

"The cost of electrons and photons is getting cheaper all the time!" ― T. Gilling

"The octopuses seemed to be neither friends nor enemies, but in a state of complicated coexistence." ― Peter Godfrey-Smith

"All the electronic devices are powered by white smoke. When smoke goes out, device is dead." ― Milan Nikolic

"Ratios matter in Data Science. Dreams should be big and worries small." ― Damian Mingle

"Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks." ― Stephen Hawking

"This book is for all of us who looked up at the sky in wonder, and then cried when we learned how much calculus separated us from the stars." ― K. Ancrum

"A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God." — Alan Perlis

"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life." ― Fernando Pessoa

"you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans." ― Isaac Asimov

"Man's relationship with technology is complex. We always invent technology, but then technology comes back and reinvents us." ― Atul Jalan

"Data are to statistics what a good offensive is to a star quarterback." ― Charles Wheelan

"One person's data is another person's noise." ― K.C. Cole

"All businesses could use a garden where Data Scientists plant seeds of possibility and water them with collaboration." ― Damian Mingle

"When services are loosely coupled, a change to one service should not require a change to another." ― Sam Newman

"If you don't understand the price of a product, it is definitely not for you." ― Mofoluke Ayoola