User:Devon McCormick/TestPage

Here's a short version of a link to my essay in defense of terseness and here's a link to another example of how terse code helps us to understand an algorithm.

Another a working link to my essay in defense of terseness but it requires the full path.

Here's some quotations to fill up space so that the anchor below more obviously does not go the start of a section or page.

The world is a comedy to those who think and
a tragedy to those who feel.
  - Horace Walpole

My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine
is based on a dare.
  - Mike Myers

I would never die for my beliefs
because I might be wrong.
  - Bertrand Russell

A lot of people are afraid of heights.
Not me, I'm afraid of widths.
  - Steven Wright

Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest
to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
  - Lao Tzu

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears,
when benevolence is lost right conduct appears,
when right conduct is lost, expedience appears.
Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth;
it is the beginning of disorder.
  - Lao Tzu

Those who have knowledge, don't predict.
Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
  - Lao Tzu

To know yet to think that one does not know is best.
Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
  - Lao Tzu

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast;
even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise;
yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.
  - Lao Tzu

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water.
Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
  - Lao Tzu

Cubum autem in duos cubos,
aut quadratoquadratum in duos quadratoquadratos,
et generaliter nullam in infinitum
ultra quadratum potestatem in duos
eiusdem nominis fas est dividere cuius rei
demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi.
Hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet.
  - Pierre de Fermat

There's no time to stop for gas,
we're already late
  - Karin Donker

Abraham Lincoln reportedly said that,
given eight hours to chop down a tree,
he'd spend six sharpening his axe.
  - TidBITS 654, quoted by Derek K. Miller, via Art Evans

Q: How many QA testers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: QA testers don't change anything. They just report that it's dark.
  - Kerry Zallar

Q: How many software engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Just one. But the house falls down.
  - Andrew Siwko

when the cart stops
do you whip the cart
or whip the ox?
  - Software koan

We know about as much about software quality problems
as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s.
We've seen the victims' agonies and helped burn the corpses.
We don't know what causes it; we don't really know if there
is only one disease. We just suffer -- and keep pouring our
sewage into our water supply.
  - Tom Van Vleck

Here's a link to the anchor example on my page of wiki tips.