[conspire] Yogi Berra, computer scientist, dead at 90

[Ruben Safir]

sad. sad... :(




On 09/24/2015 02:35 AM, Rick Moen wrote:
> 
> Making the rounds, put together by some unknown wit.
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> 
> On O(n) constants:
> "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.  In practice,
> there is."  [Take that, Don Knuth!]
> 
> On cut-and-choose:
> "You better cut the pizza in four pieces, because I'm not hungry enough to
> eat six."
> 
> On quantum computation:
> "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
> 
> On debugging:
> "You can observe a lot by watching."
> 
> On speculative execution & the failure of IBM's Model 91:
> "We made too many wrong mistakes."
> 
> On load balancing:
> "Nobody goes there anymore.  It's too crowded."
> 
> On the Halting Problem:
> "It ain't over till it's over."
> 
> On self-referential statements:
> "I never said most of the things I said."  [Take that!, Bertrand Russell!]
> 
> On memory caches' ability to reduce latency:
> "The future ain't what it used to be."
> 
> On network synchronization:
> "It gets late early out here."
> 
> On neural network convergence:
> "If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."
> 
> On Google's success:
> "I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopaedia.  Let them walk to school
> like I did."
> 
> On the security of multiparty cryptographic protocols:
> "Never answer an anonymous letter."
> 
> On the difference between "wall clock time" and "CPU time":
> "I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four."
> 
> On recursive sorting algorithms & dynamic programming:
> "The lousy teams are good, this year."
> 
> On cryptographic zero-knowledge protocols:
> "There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em."
> 
> On cache misses:
> "I wish I had an answer to that, because I'm tired of answering that
> question."
> 
> On Turing Machine diagonalization:
> "I knew the record would stand until it was broken."
> 
> On parallel system synchronization deadlock:
> "You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't
> come to yours."
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> 
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