However Vast the Darkness, We Must Supply Our Own Light

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Stanley Kubrick in his 1968 interview with Playboy:

The most terrifying fact of the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death — however mutable man may be able to make them — our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment.
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

lifted from John Gruber’s Daring Fireball

Programming for Mere Mortals

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Programming for Mere Mortals is a series of books designed to introduce the concepts of programming from the ground up to a reader who has never written a line of code.

The first volume, How to Count (approx. 70 pages), introduces you in a laid-back, conversational tone to math concepts that are essential to becoming a successful programmer. Topics include:

 

  • Numeric bases (decimal, binary, hexadecimal)
  • Signed vs. unsigned numbers
  • Units of data measure
  • Floating point and fixed point arithmetic

How to Write a Book in Three Days: Lessons from Michael Moorcock

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How to Write a Book in Three Days: Lessons from Michael Moorcock

In 1992, he published a collection of interviews conducted by Colin Greenwood called Michael Moorcock: Death is No Obstacle, in which he discusses his writing method. In the first chapter, “Six Days to Save the World”, he says those early novels were written in about “three to ten days” each, and outlines exactly how one accomplishes such fast writing.