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“This reasoning leads to an admirably simple and spare definition of summation.” bit-player.org/2008/the-arity-of-eq…

/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 29/09/2026

“[Nostalgia] as a result of economic factors in informational media.” #LaurieSpiegel, 1990 pitchfork.com/features/article/9002…

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 28/09/2026

“Yes, I am the inventor of the sideways 'smiley face' (sometimes called an 'emoticon').” #ScottFahlman, CMU, 1982 www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Esef/sefSmiley.htm

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 27/09/2026

“My own intuition has it a wash, but even I wouldn't trust my own intuitions, and neither should you.” #ScottAtran www.academia.edu/48577858/An_Edge_D…

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 26/09/2026

“We've just seen that the mode, median and mean all arise from a simple parametric process [...]” www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/201…

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 25/09/2026

“Alonzo Church sought to make improvements on the Principia, and lambda-calculus eventually arose from these efforts.” t.co/fGf9TVcJJe

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 24/09/2026

“In this way Gödel commingled the data and 'code' of arithmetic.” www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/books/re…

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 23/09/2026

“We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown.” #Eddington

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 22/09/2026

“He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.” #JohnMcCarthy

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 21/09/2026

“One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.” #LaRochefoucauld (?)

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 20/09/2026

“Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.” #RobertHeilbroner

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 19/09/2026

“Bayesian updating isn't just a special case of evolutionary optimization; it's also something like habit formation.” bactra.org/weblog/601.html

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 18/09/2026

“[P]eople find it very difficult to recognise what's relevant. It's much easier to recognise what's new.” www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/…

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 17/09/2026

“Floating-point arithmetic on digital computers is inherently inexact.” www.gdv.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de…

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 16/09/2026

“The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.” #RichardHamming

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 15/09/2026

“A good proof is one that makes us wiser.” #YuriManin

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 14/09/2026

“[A] possible deep connection between intelligence and entropy maximization [...]” www.alexwg.org/publications/PhysRev…

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 13/09/2026

“The proper way to answer a question about programming language semantics: lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive… (using #WilliamJames and #Racket)

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 12/09/2026

Dimidium facti, qui coepit, habet; sapere aude, incipe. (“Who has begun is half done; dare to know; begin!”) #Horace, Epistularum liber primus

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 11/09/2026

“Variables abstract over values, functions abstract over behavior, macros abstract over syntax.” #JoeMarshall

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 10/09/2026

“Every single day you're the result of what you did on the days prior.” #ChrisHadfield www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGrzo4IvXyg

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 09/09/2026

“Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.” #JohnMaynardKeynes

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 08/09/2026

“As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of science.” #CharlesBabbage

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 07/09/2026

“We shall build good ships here; at a profit if we can, at a loss if we must, but always good ships.” #CollisPotterHuntington

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 06/09/2026

Beautiful edition of #Shannon's 1948 paper: t.co/vZlXtyRH4t

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 05/09/2026

“Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them.” #VannevarBush, 1945

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 04/09/2026

“Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.” #Picasso

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 03/09/2026

“The whole area of guided regression is fraught with intellectual, statistical, computational, and subject matter difficulties.” #JohnTukey

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 02/09/2026

“Only jailers object to escapism.” #Tolkien, On Fairy-Stories

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 01/09/2026

“If you want to do good, work on the technology, not on getting power.” #JohnMcCarthy

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 31/08/2026

“As the geometry became more complex, the physics became simpler; until finally it almost appears that the physics has been absorbed into the geometry.” #Eddington

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 30/08/2026

“What's the point of doing a lot of make-work declarations if you're not even sure you're going to keep the result?” developers.slashdot.org/story/01/11…

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 29/08/2026

“If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.” #Schoenberg

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 28/08/2026

“No amount of language design can force a programmer to write clear programs.” #GuySteele and #Sussman

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 27/08/2026

“It made a lasting impression, perhaps in part because of the novelty of applying mathematics to poetry.” www.americanscientist.org/article/f…

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 26/08/2026

“The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy.” #WilliamJames

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 25/08/2026

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” #AlanKay mythz.servicestack.net/blog/2013/02…

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 24/08/2026

“[Lisp programming] snowballs rather miraculously, and you can quickly become overwhelmed by the power you wield.” #Hofstadter

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 23/08/2026

“The important thing an educated person should have learnt from mathematics is thinking in terms of variables and functions.” #HermannWeyl

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 22/08/2026

“This is an abstract process in mathematics, but a concrete one given our computer program.” funcall.blogspot.com/2009/03/writin…

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 21/08/2026

“Almost all current software tools are much less changeable than I believe optimal for open toolsets.” www.researchgate.net/publication/23…

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 20/08/2026

“Many types of performance optimization screw up your codebase, but making functions pure for parallel execute actually improves it.” #JohnCarmack

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 19/08/2026

“Good taste arises more from judgment than wit.” #LaRochefoucauld

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 18/08/2026

“Start everyone early, and offer those who are passionate about the subject limitless room to grow.” neil.fraser.name/news/2013/03/16

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 17/08/2026

“We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.” #RutherfordDRogers

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 16/08/2026

“The Sketchpad system uses drawing as a novel communication medium for a computer.” #IvanSutherland, 1962 www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-C…

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 15/08/2026

“Unlike other environments and programs that pretend to be interactive, Emacs actually is.” github.com/m00natic/m00natic.github…

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 14/08/2026

“The true logic for this world is the calculus of Probabilities.” #JamesClerkMaxwell

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 13/08/2026

“Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.” #JohnnyVonNeumann

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 12/08/2026

“[I]t deeply misrepresents the mind to cast its activities solely in the narrow and rigid terms of truth-seeking.” www.foundalis.com/res/drh/OnSeeingA…

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