Malcom X

“Brothers and sisters, I am here to tell you that I charge the white man. I charge the white man with being the greatest murderer on earth. I charge the white man with being the greatest kidnapper on earth. There is no place in this world that this man can go and say he created peace and harmony. Everywhere he’s gone he’s created havoc. Everywhere he’s gone he’s created destruction. So I charge him. I charge him with being the greates kidnapper on this earth! I charge him with being the greatest murderer on this earth! I charge him with being the greatest robber and enslaver on this earth! I charge the white man with being the greatest swine-eater on this earth. The greatest drunkard on this earth! He can’t deny the charges! You can’t deny the charges! We’re the living proof *of* those charges! You and I are the proof. You’re not an American, you are the victim of America. You didn’t have a choice coming over here. He didn’t say, “Black man, black woman, come on over and help me build America”. He said, “Nigger, get down in the bottom of that boat and I’m taking you over there to help me build America”. Being born here does not make you an American. I am not an American, you are not an American. You are one of the 22 million black people who are the *victims* of America. You and I, we’ve never see nany democracy. We didn’t see any… democracy on the-the cotton fields of Georgia, wasn’t no democracy down there. We didn’t see any democracy. We didn’t see any democracy on the streets of Harlem or on the streets of Brooklyn or on the streets of Detroit or Chicago. Ain’t no democracy down there. No, we’ve never seem democracy! All we’ve seen is hypocrisy! We don’t see any American Dream. We’ve experienced only the American Nightmare!”

Rebates (Rebajas)

“In essence, incentives and rebates are payments to customers to compensate for lower quality”

Gilb’s law

“Anything you need to quantify can be measured in some way that is superior to not measuring it at all”

Consuelo

“We’re all ignorant, only on different topics” – Mark Twain

Theory and practice

“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice, there is” Yogi Berra

Anonymous

To err is human, to really screw up, you need a computer

Petkovsek, Wilf, Zeilberger

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer.  Art is everything else we do

Chinese Proverb

I hear and I forget,
I see and I remember,
I do and I understand.

Triviality

According to the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman  (1985), any theorem, no matter how difficult to prove in the first place, is viewed as “trivial” by mathematicians once it has been proven. Therefore, there are exactly two types of mathematical objects: trivial ones, and those which have not yet been proven.

From MathWorld

Lapidario

Todas mis dudas, todos mis miedos actuales, son acallados con una frase extraida del Blog de un compañero de la maestria Catalin Hritcu, y escrita por Alan Kay (creador de Smalltalk): If you don’t fail at least 90 percent of the time, you’re not aiming high enough.