“Postel’s Law, aka the Robustness Principle is useful here. Be conservative in what you transmit, liberal in what you accept, and reject malicious patterns. Another way to put that could be: speak gently, keep an open mind to what others say, and don’t be a doormat.
From a lovely essay, “How to be Polite … for Geeks”, by Quinn Norton.
“At some point soon it will almost be more embarrassing for a retailer if you haven’t been hacked than if you have”.
“Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, at at the same time imagining that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure”.
TS Eliot
“The law is just politics frozen in time.”
Marcus Raskin
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
You know what a learning experience is? A learning experience is one of those things that says, “You know that thing you just did? Don’t do that.”
Douglas Adams in The Salmon of Doubt
“There is no harm in being sometimes wrong; especially if one is promptly found out.”
John Maynard Keynes
Amen to that.
“If our data is the new oil of the 21st century, then how come we’re not all sheikhs?”
Hannes Grassegger
“I don’t mind what anybody says about me, so long as it isn’t true”.
Truman Capote
“Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, and the past perfect…”
Andrew McAfee