Hugo Scolnik
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Hugo Scolnik es un científico argentino cuyo campo de investigación es las ciencias de la computación.
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- El inteligente no es aquel que lo sabe todo sino el que sabe utilizar lo poco que sabe
- ENDOSCOPIO: me preparo para todos los exámenes excepto para dos.
- Es una cosa bastante repugnante el éxito. Su falsa semejanza con el mérito engaña a los hombres
- La edad madura es aquella en la que todavía se es joven, pero con mucho más esfuerzo
- Los libros de medicina no deberían tener apéndice.
- Cualquier frase que pronuncie no debe entenderse como una afirmación sino como una pregunta (Every sentence that I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question -- Niels Bohr)
- Dado el suficiente tiempo lo imposible deviene en probable y lo probable en inevitable (Given enough time, the impossible becomes probable, and the probable inevitable). (3)
- La Física es el sistema operativo del universo (Physics is the universe's operating system).
- La forma más fácil de encontrar algo perdido en el hogar es volver a comprarlo (The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement) (1)
- La realidad es aquello que sigue existiendo cuando se deja de creer en ello (Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away)
- La jerarquía es como un estante: a más altura, menos sirve (Hierarchy is like a shelf, the higher the worse)
- La violencia es el último refugio de la incompetencia (Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent)
- Los políticos son como los pañales, a ambos hay que cambiarlos seguido, y a ambos por las mismas razones (Politicians are like diapers: they both need to be changed often and for the same reason)
- No hay nada malo en usted que una reencarnación no pueda curar (There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure).
- No seas irremplazable, si no puedes ser reemplazado no puedes ser ascendido (Don't be irreplaceable-if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted).
- Prefiero la compañía de campesinos porque no han sido educados lo suficiente como para razonar incorrectamente (I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly).
- Respeta la confianza pero la duda es lo que te dará educación (I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education) (3).
- Si un oyente asiente con su cabeza mientras le explicas tu programa, despiértalo (If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up).
- Si supiéramos qué es lo que estamos haciendo no lo llamaríamos investigación ¿o sí? (If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?).
- Siempre quise ser alguien, ahora me doy cuenta que debí ser más específico (I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific)
- Solo hay dos maneras de escribir programas libres de errores; solo la tercera funciona ( There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works).
- Un golpe con una palabra golpea más que el golpe de una espada (A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword)
- Una curva en el camino no es el final del camino, salvo que falles al tomarla (A bend in the road, is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn) (2)
- Una persona es tan grande como lo son las cosas que lo hacen enojar (A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry)
- Tacto es la habilidad de describir a los otros, como ellos mismos se ven (Tact is the ability to describe the others as they see themselves)
- A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
- After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity
- Always try to be modest and be proud of it!
- Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know
- Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
- Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
- Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored
- I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
- Religion is death insurance with a non-renewable policy
- This sentence contradicts itself -- no actually it doesn't.
- Three switched witches watch three Swatch watch switches. Which switched witch watch which Swatch watch switch??
- When the doctor called Mrs. Liebenbaum to tell her that her check came back, she replied, "So did my arthritis."
- You can observe a lot by watching.

