Book meme
Posted by primeminister | Filed under Other (tech) stuff
The blog of Mariano Iglesias pointed me to a little game that is interesting. The rules:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open it to page 56.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
- Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
Here is my meme:
“You must make it very clear that this code is disposable, incomplete, and unable to be completed.”
The Pragmatic Programmer, Andrew Hunt & David Thomas
A couple of people did it already and it is fun to see what they picked and what sentence it is become when you remove it out of its context.
January 21st, 2009 at 20:22
I don’t have a blog, but here’s the sentence: “ACDF is a rectangle.”
July 11th, 2009 at 16:31
“In the same way, you should not confuse the simplicity of Unix with a lack of sophistication — quite the reverse”
Linus Torvalds – ‘Just for Fun’