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Halting Problem

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** Halting Problem **
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-- Alas! As we grow older we begin to realise the significance of the halting problem.

[Date: Aug 14, 2009]

Pigs

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** Pigs **
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--  Just between us, he is as greedy as a man.  I would avoid him.

[Date: Jul 18, 2009]   

Hernando Cortez and the Conquest of Mexico

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** Hernando Cortez and the Conquest of Mexico **
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--  ... the Spaniards proceeded to exterminate the ancient, cultivated Indian peoples in the most horrendous way.  This chapter in the history of mankind is so appalling and so shameful to us Europeans that I would rather not say anything more about it.
-- E. H. Gombrich
-- from "A Little History of the World"

[Date: Jul 18, 2009]  

Linearity of Time

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** Linearity of Time **
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-- Time makes the Song of Life play from a unidirectional cassette tape.  It's sequential.

[Date: Feb 28, 2009]

Projects

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** Projects **
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-- All projects have three things in common: Missing deadlines, overshooting the budget and delivering the wrong product.

[Date: Feb 28, 2009]