Allan Schiffman

My ten favorite lines from Allan Schiffman's blog recondite thus far:

10. "Every institution finally perishes by an excess of its own first principle." (Lord Acton)

9. "Happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence." (JFK)

8. "Amateurs study cryptography; professionals study economics." (Allan Schiffman)

7. "If an embezzlement or check fraud loss does occur, whenever possible, file a 1099 on the perpetrators and let them deal with the IRS of the rest of their natural lives." (from Frank Abagnale's Check Fraud, Identity Theft and Embezzlement)

6. "A state of war is not a blank check for the President when it comes to the rights of the Nation’s citizens." (Sandra Day O'Connor)

5. " What do Richard Stallman, James Gosling, Charles Simonyi and Bill Joy have in common?" (Allan Schiffman)

4. "No, I won't use the freaking Pentium 4, 'cause inside a Pentium 4 is a Pentium III, and inside that is a Pentium II, and inside that is a freaking Pentium nothing, and it doesn't stop there. No, inside a Pentium is a 80486 which I won't use because inside that is a freaking 386, and inside that is a 80286. You know, of course, that inside the 286 is an 80186 and inside that is the freaked freaking 8086 which has an 8085 inside, and inside of that is an 8080, and as we all know, inside that is an 8008 and inside that is a 4040 and inside that is the freaking 4004 and inside that is a freaking japanese freaking calculator." (Allan Schiffman paraphrasing somebody, perhaps John Wharton?)

3.  (tied) "You can talk to anyone and get an immediate confession of some secret." (Allan Schiffman)

3. (tied) "You can model the human body as being comprised of a combination of irreplaceable, redundant, non-aging parts, some of which are defective to begin with. Doing so predicts the salient characteristics of human mortality." (Allan Schiffman on Why We Fall Apart)

2. "LPD is, of course, the man who made Smalltalk go too fast, the reason Adobe invented Postscript Level 2 (to keep him busy), the man who wrote the Lisp 1.5 interpreter for the PDP-1 while still in short pants... And when the hackers all get together at night, You know they all call Peter boss." (Allan Schiffman)

And my favorite line from Allan's blog thus far since its inception...

1. "There's another way you can tell you're a Bush Republican. You have faith in big business, faith in the resourcefulness of rich people and faith that losers deserve their fate. And to those critics who are always harping about the unchecked greed of our President's corporate cronies, I say: Don't be economic girlie-men." (Allan Schiffman parodying Ahnold)

Comments

[Ross Stapleton-Gray]

> "No, I won't use the freaking Pentium 4, 'cause inside
> a Pentium 4 is a Pentium III, and inside that is a
> Pentium II...

Though, of course, inside us is a primitive primate, and inside that is some sort of reptilian thing that asserts itself when need be, and inside that is a more rudimentary, aquatic creature, etc., etc.

Can one port the functionality of polite society to the hominid platform? Then, good enough. If it'll run a Web browser, do you much care how weirdly architected its guts turn out to be?

[Account Deleted]

Each person clickity click clicking away at a little machine that they are sucked into like a fly to light. Sorry, but that's just entirely too open for me. This is a Brave New World turning out as prophecy of our immediate future. There are at least three things about Kevin's comment that made Rohit smile: the invocation of physics, the notion that 30 is relative, and the thought of seeing you next week.

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