If the Moon where only 1 Pixel:
Codebases: Million Lines of Code:
The true size of …
Hackers and Painters: http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html
Pareto principle For many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes Link
Sayre's law states, in a formulation quoted by Charles Philip Issawi: „In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake.“ By way of corollary, it adds: „That is why academic politics are so bitter.“ Sayre's law is named after Wallace Stanley Sayre (1905–1972), U.S. political scientist and professor at Columbia University.
Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design: http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html
Dunning-Kruger Effekt: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger-Effekt
Gell-Mann amnesia effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
Brandolini's law: bullshit asymmetry principle https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
Knoll’s law of media accuracy: https://effectiviology.com/knolls-law/
Parkinson's law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
If you wait until the last minute, it only takes a minute to do.
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. ~Niels Bohr
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake. ~F. Wikzek
“Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.” Jim Horning
Wisdom comes from experience and experience comes from making mistakes.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.[Bertrand Russell, 1933] (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell)
If you can't explain something clearly and simply to another person, then you don't fully understand it.
Einstein: Imagination is more powerful than knowledge.
An elephant is a mouse build to government specifications.
It's easier to corral the sheep than face the wolves. Even if some of the sheep don't want to cooperate. That's why you castrate them. Maybe it's not so baaaad.
„[Building] an IPv6 network is like [building] a cathedral, first you build it and then you pray a lot“ ;
The Chinese have forgotten more about money than the rest of the world ever knew.
Anecdotal evidence is an oxymoron
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert E.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny…' -Isaac Asimov.
Email-Verschlüsselung ist wie Sex zwischen Teenagern:
A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy.
He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy.
At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: „What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.“
The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, „What is the tortoise standing on?“
„You're very clever, young man, very clever,“ said the old lady. „But it's turtles all the way down!“ —Hawking, 1988[1]
(Douglas Adams, Lachs im Zweifel)
Managers in Hot Air Balloons
A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man resting in a field down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts: „Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am.“
The man below says: „Yes. You are in a hot air balloon, hovering about thirty feet above this field. You are near 47 degrees North latitude, and 122.7 degrees West longitude.“
„You must be an engineer,“ says the balloonist.
„I am,“ replies the surprised man. „How did you know?“
„Well,“ says the balloonist, „everything you have told me is likely to be correct, and technically accurate, but I have no idea what to make of the information, and the fact is I am still lost.“
The man below says, „Interesting, you're a manager.“
„I am“ replies the balloonist, „but how did you know?“
„Well,“ says the man, „in spite of having an elevated view of all the surroundings, you don't know where you are, or where you are going. You have made a promise which you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. The fact is you are in the exact same position you were in before we met, but now it is somehow my fault.“