Vinnige wiskunde

To square a number like 14, identify the closest round number — in this case, 10. Since you subtracted 4 to get 10, add 4 to 14 to get 18 and multiply that by 10. Add to that the square of 4: 180 + 16 = 196.


To multiply, say, 11 x 32, add the digits of 32 (3 + 2 = 5) and insert the sum between them: 352. Numbers with two-digit sums use a slight variation: For 11 x 84 (8 + 4 = 12), add the 1 from 12 to the 8 and leave the 2 in the middle: 924.


Ask a fan to think of any number. Then have them double it, add 12, divide by 2, and subtract the original number. Before they're done, tell them the answer: 6. It will always be 6.


- from Wired

"It's one of those nights . . . There's warm beer, and cold women. No I just don't fit in. Every joint I stumble into tonight That's just how it's been . . . "

'n Paar Aanghalings

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. Jerry Seinfeld, comedian

We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their colour.

Maya Angelou, poet

I think I’ve discovered the secret of life — you just hang around until you get used to it. Charles M Schulzm, cartoonist

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build yo wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury, author

I’m tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn’t work. Of course it doesn’t work. We are supposed to work it. Alexander Woollcott, critic

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. Barbara Tuchman, historian

For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time. Isabel Allende, author

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. HG Wells, author

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?

Rita Rudner, comedian

The first time I see a jogger smiling, I’ll consider it. Joan Rivers, comedian

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfil them,for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, philosopher

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

Brian Aldiss, author

I must say Ifind television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. Groucho Marx, comedian

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all tobe distilled into actions which bring results. Florence Nightingale, nursing pioneer

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush. Dawn French, comedian

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. Emma Goldman, activist

Don’t have sex, man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them. Steve Martin, comedian

Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know,’ and thou shalt progress. Maimonides, philosopher

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. Billy Connolly, comedian

Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne, poet

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Lao Tzu, philosopher

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. Steven Biko, activist

A word to the wise ain’t necessary -- it’s the stupid ones that need the advice. Bill Cosby, comedian

If you do not speak up when it matters, when would it matter that you speak? The opposite of courage is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. Jim Hightower, activist

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. Douglas Adams, author

Any idiot can get laid when they’re famous. That’s easy. It’s getting laid when you’re not famous that takes some talent. Kevin Bacon, actor

Hope is the thing withfeat hers that perches in the soul — and sings the tunes without the words — and never stops at all. Emily Dickinson, poet

We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. Robert Wilensky, computer science professor

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there. Lewis Carroll, author

Variations On Murphy's Law

1. The Law of Common Sense: Never accept a drink from a urologist.

2. The Law of Reality: Never get into fights with ugly people, they have nothing to lose.

3. The Law of Self Sacrifice: When you starve with a tiger, the tiger starves last.

4. The Law of Volunteering: If you dance with a grizzly bear, you had better let him lead.

5. The Law of Avoiding Oversell: When putting cheese in a mousetrap, always leave room for the mouse.

6. The Law of Motivation: Creativity is great, but plagiarism is faster.

7. Wailer's Law: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

8. Law of Drunkenness: You can't fall off the floor.

9. Main's Law: For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

10. Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would have destroyed civilization.

Wexelblat's Scheduling Algorithm

Choose two:

• Good
• Fast
• Cheap

Software Architecture

If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.

Software

Software is Too Important to be Left to Programmers, by Meilir Page-Jones.

Soorte Salarisse

Uieskilsalaris: As daaraan vat, begin jy huil
Dieetsalaris: Laat jou elke keer minder eet
Ateissalaris: Jy begin ernstig twywel oor sy bestaan
Donderstormsalaris: Jy weet nie wanneer dit gaan kom nie en hoe lank dit gaan hou nie
Galgehumorsalaris: Jy lag histeries om te keer dat jy huil
Impotente salaris: Laat jou in die steek wanneer jy dit die nodigste het
Arktiese salaris: Is al dertig jaar lank gevries
WP-salaris: Prakties, maar jy troos jou daaraan dat jy ten minste by 'n lekker plek werk

Software

Software documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing. (Anonymous.)

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