User:OnePt618

First time caller, long time listener. I've enjoyed reading Wikipedia for many years now, and I figure it's time to get serious about giving back to this community.

In case you're wondering what the user name is all about -- it's the Golden ratio:


 * $$\frac{a+b}{a} = \frac{a}{b} = \varphi\approx 1.61803\,39887\ldots\,$$

Favorite Quotes
"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't."

- Emerson M. Pugh

"Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories. And they will figure out how those stories apply to them."

- Randy Pausch

"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity."

- Charles Mingus

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"The Universe is difficult to comprehend because it is obvious."

- Albert Einstein

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."

- Chinese proverb

"Even a rose goes through a lot of dirt before it blossoms."

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."

- Mark Twain

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."

- Winston Churchill

"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."

- Isaac Asimov

"Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower."

- Alan C. Kay

Articles started

 * TCP/IP Illustrated
 * Pop Keeney Stadium
 * North American Martyrs Parish
 * Here's the Deal: Don't Touch Me

Successful DYKs

 * ... that funnyman and germ-phobic Howie Mandel released his autobiography in the midst of the H1N1 flu pandemic? (July 6, 2010)
 * ... that Julia Child insisted on keeping her "wall oven with its squeaking door" in her kitchen (pictured), now on display at the Smithsonian? (July 10, 2010)