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It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), Sherlock Holmes in "The Dancing Men"

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.

Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters"

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

Borland

Find the simple path to what works and follow it, always looking for a simpler path.

Patrick D. Smith

In panic, people try to replace the lost order of the organic process, by artificial forms of order based on control. (...) But this makes things still worse.

Christopher Alexander in "The Timeless Way of Building"

Live your life while you can, you will not be able to be as agile as you are now ever again. Waste not a second, for you will waste many more reflecting on what you have already wasted.

Unknown author

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

Einstein

For every complex problem, there is an answer that is short, simple and wrong.

H. L. Mencken

Argue for your limitations - and sure enough - they're yours.

Richard Bach

If I can't dance, I don't want your revolution.

Emma Goldman, paraphrased

Beam me up, Scotty.

Denny Crane

Open, open, open, moet het zijn...

T' Lau

I personally think that architecture doesn't have much meaning for a system that doesn't change. Such a static system just is, but when a system changes, you can begin to see the architecture of the system in what doesn't change. That's certainly true of human beings - sometimes we call it "character." Perhaps architecture of a system is somehow the essential "character" of that system.

Gerald Weinberg on the aye conference wiki page on change architecting

My mother told me, don't ever change. You're original, you've got your own path.

Leftfield (sung by Toni Halliday)


There are at least two kinds of games.
One could be named finite, the other infinite.
Between the two we can find a third game, and name it transfinite.