Good Advice From the Creator of C++

Know the foundations of computer science: algorithms, machine architectures, data structures, etc. Don’t just blindly copy techniques from application to application. Know what you are doing, that it works, and why it works. Don’t think you know what the industry will be in five years time or what you’ll be doing then, so gather a [...]

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Chance and Pasteur

“Dans les champs de l’observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés.” (In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.)
~ Louis Pasteur
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Babbage Babble

On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question
~Attributed to Charles Babbage
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