Adam L. Beberg's Words

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Places I have spoken:

• DGRID2003
  -- Nov 17, 2003 - Phoenix, AZ
• MIT Media Laboratory
  -- Jul 30, 2001 - Cambridge, MA
• Spring 2001 Internet2 Member Meeting
  -- Mar 7-9, 2001 - Washington, DC
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  -- Feb 18, 2001 - Pasadena, CA
• O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference
  -- Feb 14-16, 2001 - San Francisco, CA
• World Information Security OlymFair 2000
  -- Jul 20-21, 2000 - Taejon, Republic of Korea
• TWIST 2000
  -- Jul 13-14, 2000 - Irvine, CA
• Rootfest 2000
  -- Jun 14-16, 2000 - Minneapolis, MN
• Rootfest 1999
  -- May 21-23, 1999 - Minneapolis, MN
  
  

Professional writings:

• To open source or not to open source (PDF)
  -- Apr, 2000 on IBM developerWorks
  
  
  

Casual writings:

• The $1,000 Baby
  -- Dec 28, 1999
• The New High Tech Job Market
  -- Jul 12, 1999
  
  
  

"There are two types of people in the world. People that are changing the world by advancing human knowledge, and people that are in my way."
-- Feb 26, 2000

"Designing a program is a lot like painting. First you need a vision, and skill. Then it takes alot of work, and sweat. You get your hands dirty, and noone wants to get near you becasue you smell.
But painters know something coders do not. When a painter is done with a painting he doesn't just keep painting. He puts it aside to dry and starts with a fresh canvas, building on what was learned."
-- May 16, 1999

"The purpose of life is to survive and reproduce...
The purpose of living is another story..."
-- Nov 11, 1996

"We humans give our pets who are old or dying an honorable death,
that they may not live in agony and pain.
Yet we refuse this same honor to the old or dying of our own kind,
but instead we keep them alive, with our technology and machines.
And we say that it is done for their own good,
when it is evil and greed that feed off pain and suffering."
-- Nov 12, 1996
[inspired by urgings from the medical community for the supreme court to ban all assisted suicides in the US]

"Something is fundamentally wrong with our government considering the free flow of information in the same catagory as passing out weapons of mass destruction to school children."
-- date unknown (early 1995?)
[refering to the government ban on the export of the equation
c = m^e mod pq -- where p and q are large primes]

"Humans have evolved over time to like fire...
Those that wondered away got eatten."
-- Dec 20, 1996

"You're using a Microsoft browser on a Microsoft network, with a Microsoft operating system... and you expect it to work?"
-- Jan 13, 1997

"In life there are those that learn from books and schooling...
and those that just roll up their sleeves and do it.
I haven't worn sleeves in years...
-- May 8, 1996 19:53 CST

"I find that when the TV is off and the network is down, my productivity is much higher. But I spend all of my productive time thinking how nice it would be if the TV was on and the net was up."
-- March 9, 1997

"My subconscious is definately on top of this..."
-- March 9, 1997
[implying of course my conscious mind had no clue, but I was doing a rather complex task correctly anyway]

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