It Is Much More Rewarding To Do

The Designer Of A New Kind Of System Must Participate Fully In The Implementation.

I Currently Use Ubuntu Linux, On A Standalone Laptop - It Has No Internet Connection. I Occasionally Carry Flash Memory Drives Between This Machine And The Macs That I Use For Network Surfing And Graphics; But I Trust My Family Jewels Only To Linux.

The Book Dynamic Programming By Richard Bellman Is An Important, Pioneering Work In Which A Group Of Problems Is Collected Together At The End Of Some Chapters Under The Heading "exercises And Research Problems," With Extremely Trivial Questions Appearing In The Midst Of Deep, Unsolved Problems. It Is Rumored That Someone Once Asked Dr. Bellman How To Tell The Exercises Apart From The Research Problems, And He Replied: "if You Can Solve It, It Is An Exercise; Otherwise It's A Research Problem."

If You Optimize Everything, You Will Always Be Unhappy.

How Can You Own Numbers? Numbers Belong To The World.