Top 15 Erik Naggum Quotes

Life is hard, and then you die.

Member of AAAI AAAS ACM AMS APS ASA ASL IEEE IMS MAA NYAS PSA SIAM USENIX The United States of America still symbolizes individualism, rationality, and intellectual achievement to me — even though most Americans disagree.

Travel is a meat thing.

If you are concerned about netiquette, you are either concerned about your own and follow good netiquette, or you are concerned about others and violate good netiquette by bothering people with your "concern", as the only netiquette you can actually affect is your own.

Suppose we blasted all politicians into space. Would the SETI project find even one of them?

Environmentalists are much too concerned with planet Earth. Their geocentric attitude prevents them from seeing the greater picture – lots of planets are much worse off than Earth is.

Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm.

If this is not what you expected, please alter your expectations.

If you think this year is "97", you are not "year 2000 compliant".

My other car is a cdr.

1,3,7-trimethylxanthine – a basic ingredient in quality software.

NETSCAPISM /net-'sca-, pi-z*m/ n (1995): habitual diversion of the mind to purely imaginative activity or entertainment as an escape from the realization that the Internet was built by and for someone else.

The past is not more important than the future, despite what your culture has taught you. Your future observations, conclusions, and beliefs are more important to you than those in your past ever will be. The world is changing so fast the balance between the past and the future has shifted.

Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.

In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief.