ـ "... إن فى الإنسان منطقة عجيبة سحيقة لا تصل إليها الفضيلة ولا الرذيلة ، ولا تشع فيها شمس العقل والإرادة ، ولا ينطق لسان المنطق ، ولا تطاع القوانين والأوضاع ، ولا تتداول فيها لغة أو تستخدم كلمة ... إنما هى مملكة نائية عن عالم الألفاظ والمعاني ... كل مافيها شفاف هفاف يأتي بالأعاجيب فى طرفة عين ... يكفي أن ترن فى أرجائها نبرة ، أو تبرق لمحة ، أو ينشر شذا عطر ، حتى يتصاعد من أعماقها فى لحظة من الإحساسات والصور والذكريات ، ما يهز كياننا ويفتح نفوسنا على أشياء لا قبل لنا بوصفها ، ولا بتجسيدها ، ولو لجأ إلى أدق العبارات و أبرع اللغات ... " ـ

توفيق الحكيم

Within man lies a deep wondrous spot, to which neither virtue nor vice can reach. Upon which the sun of reason and will never rise. In which the mouth of logic never speaks, the laws and rules are never obeyed, and not a language is used nor a word is ever spoken.
It is a distant Kingdom, beyond words and meanings. With everything is a sheer murmur offering wonders in a blink. From the depths of which, suffice a single tone or a flash of mind or a scent of a perfum, to allow rise of emotions, pictures and memories, a rising that will shake our being and open ourselves to things we can neither describe nor materialize even if we used the most refined of phrases or the most skillful of languages.

Tawfiq Al-Hakim.
(My humble transalation of the arabic text)

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Murphy ;(

Laws :
If anything can go wrong, it Will .
Nothing is as easy as it looks.
Every solution breeds new problems.
Everything takes longer than you think.

Murphy's Law of Thermodynamics : Things get worse under pressure.
Murphy's Constant : Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value.

Murphy's computers laws

Constants aren't & Variables won't.
Bugs will appear in one part of a working program when another 'unrelated' part is modified.
The subtlest bugs cause the greatest damage and problems.
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
Software bugs are impossible to detect by anybody except the end user.
Bugs mysteriously appear when you say, "Watch this!" , corollary: If you call another programmer over to see if he knows what's wrong the bug disappears.
The probability of bugs appearing is directly proportional to the number and importance of people watching.
The amount of damage that a string of code can do is inversely proportional to the length of the string

When designing a program to handle all possible dumb errors, nature creates a dumber user

Computer sadism: When the computer causes physical or mental damage to a person and can't receive such a return favor (due to management rules).

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