I conclude that Yogi Berra's likely cause of death was amphibolism. Leo On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:08:41 -0700, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
On O(n) constants:
"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is." [Take that, Don Knuth!]
On cut-and-choose:
"You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six"
On quantum computation:
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
On debugging:
"You can observe a lot by watching."
On speculative execution & the failure of IBM's Model 91:
"We made too many wrong mistakes."
On load balancing:
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
On the Halting Problem:
"It ain't over till it's over."
On self-referential statements:
"I never said most of the things I said." [Take that!, Bertrand Russell!]
On memory caches' ability to reduce latency:
"The future ain’t what it used to be."
On network synchronization:
"It gets late early out here."
On neural network convergence:
"If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."
On Google's success:
"I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."
On the security of multiparty cryptographic protocols:
"Never answer an anonymous letter."
On the difference between "wall clock time" and "CPU time":
"I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four."
On recursive sorting algorithms & dynamic programming:
"The lousy teams are good this year"
On cryptographic zero-knowledge protocols:
"There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em."
On cache misses:
"I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question."
On Turing Machine diagonalization:
"I knew the record would stand until it was broken."
On parallel system synchronization deadlock:
"You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours."