Dept of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Gunnar Gotshalks Retired Last updated: 2020 July 7

On Ethics

ACM Computing & public policy. Links to

• Software Engineering Code of Ethics
• ACM code of Ethics and Professional Practice
• Using the Code of Ethics

Miscellaneous

Explore the Mandelbrot Explore Julia sets z^2+c Explore Julia sets c*sin(z) Explore Julia sets sin(z)+c

Quotes

• Alexander Pope (1688-1744), from An Essay on Criticism, 1709

  "A little learning is a dang'rous thing;
  Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
  There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
  And drinking largely sobers us again.
  Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts,
  In fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts,
  While from the bounded level of our mind
  Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind;
  But more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise
  New distant scenes of endless science rise!
  So pleas'd at first the towering Alps we try,
  Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky,
  Th' eternal snows appear already past,
  And the first clouds and mountains seem the last;
  But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey
  The growing labours of the lengthen'd way,
  Th' increasing prospects tire our wand'ring eyes,
  Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!"

• "Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be." — J. Horning
• "Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment" — J. Horning
• "The early bird may get the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese." — Steven Wright
• "What happens if you get scared half to death twice?" — Steven Wright
• "The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard" — Steven Wright
• A Programmer's Lament by Dennie L. van Tassel

  I really hate this damned machine;
  I wish that they would sell it.
  It never does quite what I want
  But only what I tell it.

• Old joke

  "What is Matter?   Never Mind.
  What is Mind?   It doesn't Matter."