Thought for the Day

The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.
:: Henry J. Tillman

Quote of the Day

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
:: Winston Churchill

Quote of the Day

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
:: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought for the Day

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Carl Sagan

Quote of the Day

To be great is to be misunderstood.
:: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought for the Day

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
:: Don Marquis

Quote of the Day

Justice and fairness, not religion or atheism, are needful for the protection of the state.
:: Hakim Jami

Thought for the Day

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
:: John Sladek

Quote of the Day

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
:: Albert Einstein

Quote of the Day

Mingle not in projects with men whose ways are not yours.
:: Confucius

Quote of the Day

Necessity... the mother of invention.
:: Plato

Thought for the Day

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
:: George Santayana

Thought for the Day

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
:: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote of the Day

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
:: Theodore Roosevelt

Quote of the Day

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
:: Gore Vidal

Thought for the Day

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
:: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought for the Day

A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
:: G.I. Gurdjieff

Quote of the Day

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
:: Albert Einstein

Thought for the Day

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
:: Richard Feynman

Quote of the Day

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
:: Albert Einstein

Quote of the Day

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
:: Francis Bacon

Ode to an MD5 Checksum

Before I made my hash
I forgot to add the salt.
Now you've become so predictable
and it's really all my fault.

Bathed in white noise
from some foreign sector,
Is this the dubious voice
of an alien initialization vector?

Pay heed to the conductor
don't sully the notation.
Every bit dances through
their left-bit rotation.

One step forward
one step back.
I should have seen this coming -
a surprise birthday attack!

A torpor of smoke and confusion
amid flashing lights and double-vision,
the message is beset with peril
after a harrowing hash collision

The message must get through
if the cipher is somehow able -
to navigate his way
to an elusive rainbow table.

Unsettled Transience

I sit down at my desk
to start the day.
Out the window
seven geese fly low in the fog.

A day not like not like
any other day -
A migration has begun
to a distant journey's end.

Seven elegant v's
disappear
into the gray brume.

Quote of the Day

Fortune sides with him who dares.
:: Virgil

Quote of the Day

He was a bold man, that first ate an oyster.
:: Jonathan Swift

Quote of the Day

Show them the death, and they will accept the fever.
:: Arab proverb

12 Things you should never do in your cube

• Aimless, tuneless whistling
• Paint or clip your fingernails
• Have a hootenanny
• Talk to recruiters or interviewers
• Take a sponge bath
• Have a loud argument over the phone with a family member
• Let a big stinky (or is that your lunch?)
• Look at porn
• Make it look like a dumpster
• Sing along to "Hits from the 60's and 70's"
• Click that pen one more time

Quote of the Day

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
:: Plato

Thought for the Day

I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
:: Tom Hanks

Quote of the Day

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
:: Friedrich Nietzsche

Thought for the Day

Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.
:: Joey Bishop

Quote of the Day

Having heard the True Way in the morning, what matters it if one should come to die that night?
:: Confucius