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Key data points

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

— Richard Hamming

Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.

— George E. P. Box

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

— Clifford Stoll

All creativity is an extended form of a joke

All creativity is an extended form of a joke. Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.” Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in–the one that we think is reality.

– Alan Kay

This human is on to something… great.

Via ACM. Thanks Buzz for helping me find the source.

(Go Lang) The Go Developers Almanac

Go is a very enticing language. Not having taken more than a light jump into it, it has all the brevity of what I remember as a student learning C combined with the modern library support of Python today. Wanting to find the Go equivalent of The Java Developers Almanac, I ended up at socketloop.com. It has short and sweet articles, just like the language, and just like the author.