Paul Dilascia quotes

“The best way to understand any system is to understand the problem it was invented to solve.”
-- Paul Dilascia

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“your 90MHz Pentium won't have any trouble doing arithmetic (except for certain divisions).”
-- Paul Dilascia

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“If this code works, it was written by Paul DiLascia. If not, I don't know who wrote it ..I'll be laughing when I'm old and and all my programmer friends have gone alexic from staring at too many tiny pixels”
-- Paul Dilascia

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“You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.”

“The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, 1957.

“How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?”

“I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.”

“The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you.”

“We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.”

“If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem - it is reality.”

“If you want to solve hard problems, have hard problems.”

“The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.”

“That's all it took to solve problems - just sense.”

Source : Gary Paulsen (2009). “Hatchet”, p.155, Simon and Schuster