David Thompson

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I used to work for the CSL, and I earned a BA (yes, you read that right) from the CS department in a previous millennium.

Take a look at some old personal pages, or send me email.

Quotes

• SCSI is not voodoo. There are perfectly good *technical reasons* as to why occasionally you need to sacrifice a goat to your SCSI chain.
  --Barry DeZonia

• The Founding Fathers did not establish the United States as a democratic republic so that elected officials would decide trivia, while all great questions would be decided by the judiciary.
  --Judge Andrew Kleinfeld, dissenting from a ruling "constitutionalizing" the "right" to physician-assisted suicide.

• If it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

• He who dies with the most toys is still dead.
  --Rocky Wentz

• Please don't use unshielded cables for SCSI connections outside your computer's case. Many of us use the radio spectrum for something other than a trash heap. Keep your SCSI signals to yourself, no-one else wants them.
  --Gary Field

• The problem (with private application color maps in X) is that when the cursor moves outside such an application, the color scheme for that window looks like somone drank from a dozen different paint tins and then puked on the monitor.
  --unknown

• For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
  -- H L Mencken

• The most interesting feature of multi-threading is that each thread sees the same global address space. The trickiest part of programming multiple threads is that each thread sees the same global address space.
  -- Feuer, Alan R., "MFC Programming," Addison-Wesley, 1997.

• I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my Grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers.
  --anon

• Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
  --P. J. O'Rourke

• Hell is truth seen too late
  -- Locke

• Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.
  --Dave Barry

• The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
  --Albert Einstein