From John Pozadzides in a Lifehacker article on passwords:
Adding just one capital letter and one asterisk would change the processing time for an 8 character password from 2.4 days to 2.1 centuries
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From Stephen King:
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
Discovered in 1001 Rules for My Unborn Son. It comes in as #432.
From Henry Ford:
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
Interesting take on the need to not be too blinded by the status quo when looking to be innovative (although read Luke Hohmann’s clarification that this not should be taken to mean “ignore your customers”). More to get beyond what the customer says they want (framed in what they’re used to, or aware of) to what the real need is.
From Sir Ken Robinson, in an excellent TED talk on the needed learning revolution:
A three-year old is not half a six-year old.
Within a fascinating article on confirmation bias (read the whole thing).
From Justin Owings:
Thanks to Google, we can instantly seek out support for the most bizarre idea imaginable. If our initial search fails to turn up the results we want, we don’t give it a second thought, rather we just try out a different query and search again.
Just got to admire the “glass half full” view of Doug Suttles, one of the BP team trying to resolve their current oil leak.
I wouldn’t say it has failed yet… What I would say is what we attempted to do last night didn’t work.
Via Boing Boing.
Lovely quote from Cory Doctorow while discussing alternative therapies on Boing Boing:
The plural of anecdote is not fact.
From Security expert Charlie Miller, in an article on computer security:
Mac OS X is like living in a farmhouse in the country with no locks, and Windows is living in a house with bars on the windows in the bad part of town.
From Arthur Bloch:
If your project doesn’t work, look for the part that you didn’t think was important.