Tag Archives: Thoughts

The laws of computing (2)

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Dick Knisely

The “laws” of computing: an occasional series of witty (?) thoughts. THE LAWS OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING Any given program, when running, is obsolete. If a program is useful, it will have to be changed. If a program is useless, it … Continue reading →

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Laws of Computing

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Dick Knisely

The laws of computing: an occasional series of witty (?) thoughts. LUBARSKY’S LAW OF CYBERNETIC ENTOMOLOGY There’s always one more bug.     TROUTMAN’S POSTULATES Profanity is the one language understood by all programmers. Not until a program has been … Continue reading →

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Plan for success!

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Dick Knisely

In my current “day job” I’m a systems engineer helping my customers get stuff done.  Before that, I led and managed software projects.  In both these roles I was, and still am, amazed at the number of times people fail … Continue reading →

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Is perception reality? …really?

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Dick Knisely

I mentioned in the prior post how John Medina’s Brain Rules helped me get my brain in the right frame of mind to connect with It’s all invented in the Zanders’ book. It’s not exactly the point that the Zanders’ … Continue reading →

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Book review: The Art of Possibility

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Dick Knisely

The Art of Possibility by Roz and Ben Zander, Harvard Press (c) 2000. In my life there have been a handful of books that made a major, lasting impact on me.  A couple of them truly changed my life-they altered … Continue reading →

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A Douglas Adams perspective

Posted on February 19, 2011 by Dick Knisely

Ran across this quote from Douglas Adams, the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series of radio plays and books which I highly recommend. From the book The Salmon of Doubt: Anything that is in the world when … Continue reading →

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The most exciting words in science

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Dick Knisely

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’, but ‘That’s funny…’ –Isaac Asimov Seems true for science and all my life. So many of the most interesting and best things … Continue reading →

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A thought experiment

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Dick Knisely

Here’s an experiment that we can’t actually do and might well never have the technology for. Fortunately, that’s not important for the thought experiment, though. The experiment is closely related to the immediately prior post. In there I wrote “…assemble … Continue reading →

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Thinking about life

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Dick Knisely

Life on other planets may, or may not, exist. Yet an even greater mystery is why there is life at all and just what is what we call “life” anyway? And, yes, I know there’s a definition in every biology … Continue reading →

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Thinking about books

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Dick Knisely

I ran across an interesting, but old, set of discussions about the most important invention of the last 2000 years. It included a lot of good, interesting answers. My first thought was the steam engine, but after reading one of … Continue reading →

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