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Bruno Andrighetto

Bruno's Home Page

Welcome to the my new web site.

I've recently updated both the look and the content of my site. This is the first major refresh of my web site's look since 2000. A lot has happened regarding web browsers and standards in the past five years. The new site takes advantages of some of the latest web standards, and unfortunately that means the site may not "look right" in old browsers released before 2000. But I've tried to make sure that most of the content is at least readable. And apart from the pages that require JavaScript and plug-ins, the site is mostly lynx-friendly.

Overview

I've added some pages about the site itself, such as what tools I use to prepare the content (the colophon page), copyright information, and a site map.

My Blogs:

  • B-List (from the web: funny/interesting stuff, or not)
  • L'orto di Bruno aka Bruno's Vegetable Garden
  • Bruno's Rants - wherein the author vents his proverbial spleen about things that irritate

I hope you find something of interest.

Some quotations to ponder ....

"The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination."

-- Frederick P. Brooks Jr, The Mythical Man Month (1974)

"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things"

-- Niccolò Macchiavelli, The Prince (1532)

"The inferno of living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together.
"There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognise who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space."

-- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (1972)

"Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them."

-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)

Michel Montaigne on friendship:
"In my judgement the sweetness of well-matched and compatible fellowship can never cost too dear. O! a friend! How true is that ancient judgement, that the frequenting of one is more sweet than the element water, more necessary than the element fire."

"Violence is the last resort of the incompetent"

-- Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1951)

"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."

-- Philip K. Dick, How to Build A Universe That Won't Fall Apart in Two Days (1978)

"Hitler had once said that the true victory of the Nazis would be to force its enemies, the United States in particular, to become like the Third Reich - i.e. a totalitarian society - in order to win. Hitler, then, expected to win even in losing. As I watched the American military-industrial complex grow after World War Two I kept remembering Hitler's analysis, and I kept thinking how right the son of a bitch was. We had beaten Germany, but both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. were getting more and more like the Nazis with their huge police systems every day."

-- Philip K. Dick, Notes on Oh to be a Blobel! (1979)
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