Lighten up old man, life’s too ffing short to be grumpy. Smoke a joint, empty a bottle of whiskey, get laid and write another amazing algorithm or two.
But the whole point of these essays is that, although elusive and intimate, thinking --like sex!-- is a most natural human activity: we all do it (and, as with sex: we all do it as well as we have learned to do it.)
@fuffz: The doctor wrote essays on 'thinking effectively' and how rarely it can be found in practice. Your comments reek of ineffective thought. What a shame. Silence is a virtue.
~ fuffz
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/edsger-dijkstra-discipline-in-thought/#comment-6175
~ Dijkstra
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD619.html
@fuffz: The doctor wrote essays on 'thinking effectively' and how rarely it can be found in practice. Your comments reek of ineffective thought. What a shame. Silence is a virtue.
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