Your Daily Knuth

I keep meaning to write a script that greets me with a Knuth quote when I log in every morning, but I haven't had time.

Today while looking up something else I came across these two gems, though, and thought I'd share:

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" 

and

"If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy."

I sometimes think Knuth is like the Mae West of Computer Science. Or maybe Confucius. Which I guess makes Stallman... Sun Tzu? :-)

howdy.

it's been awhile.....
we have moved and are in our new house in a new town.... but right now, i am going to imagine that i am not surrounded by boxes, newspaper, and crap.  in fact, i wish i could find one of taylor's plastic wands.  i'd wave it and things would magically come out of the boxes, make their way to their proper places, the walls would be painted already, and the pictures would be hung.
and me....i'd be sitting with my feet up, watching it all happen w/ a hot cup of coffee or better yet, a big glass of red wine.
good news- my computer is back up w/ the internet- yippee!!!  so i'll be seeing a lot more of y'all :)