Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 48 " A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other. " ―  Jaron Lanier Cited by Lex Fridman in a podcast with  Jaron Lanier: Virtual Reality, Social Media & the Future of Humans and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #218 - YouTube   Another  quote from the VR pioneer on Kara Swisher's Sway podcast about what he thinks of Meta and the Mark Zuckerberg Metaverse demo. It was ... "L ike some megalomaniac took my stuff & filtered it through some weird self-aggrandizement filter. " ―  Jaron Lanier

Quote of the Week 47 " After a while you learn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back. " ―  Bob Dylan Stated in Dylan's 2004 memoir   Chronicles: Volume One . Triggered by  the use of the quote in Artur Varanda's master thesis The GDPR and Log Pseudonymization . See the paper  Log pseudonymization: Privacy maintenance in practice   for an excerpt of the research results in English.

Quote of the Week 46 " If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there . " ―  Lewis Carroll A paraphrase of an exchange between Alice and the Cheshire Cat in  Lewis Carroll 's  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . Triggered by  Thomas Stiehm's  use of the quote in his presentation " Continuous Build and other DevOps anti-patterns, and how to overcome them " (slide 4).

Quote of the Week 45 "I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb. " ―  Richard Feynman In line with Dunning and Kruger's findings the inverse corollary could be stated as: "I’m dumb enough to think that I’m smart. " That triggers a reference to Mount Stupid as depicted in  Zach Weinersmith 's (Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal)   chart which according to Chris Barth " features a prominent bump, toward the low end of the knowledge spectrum, where people feel qualified to dish on a given subject, despite their relative lack of wisdom. The name of that bump is Mount Stupid." Source:  https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2475 (Zach Weinersmith) Gunter Dueck has pointed out the similarity between this chart and the Gartner Hype Cycle ... but that's a different story .

Quote of the Week 44 "Continuous is more often than you think. " ―  Mike Roberts Triggered by the use of Roberts ' quote by Dave Farley in his presentation of the " Top 10 Rules For Continuous Integration ". Also cited in the last paragraph "Done Means Released" of Warren Veerasingam's blog article " Found: 7 Lost Principles of Continuous Delivery ".