“From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend to read it.” —Groucho Marx
Source: The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor, February 1, 2012
“I can love you because I want to feel less alone, or I can love you because I want you to feel less alone. But only the latter requires me to imagine a consciousness independent of my own, and equally real.” —Garth Risk Hallberg
Source: ‘Why Write Novels at All?’, The New York Times
“It was while I was at interview that I finally noticed that subjecting myself to the judgement of an institution which I fundamentally disagreed with was bizarre.” —Elly Nowell, commenting on the rejection letter she sent the University of Oxford
Source: Magdalen Oxford gets rejection letter from student, BBC News
“Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled.” —Howard Stevenson
If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold. —blue_beetle
Source: Comment on the thread “User-driven discontent” on MetaFilter
You know how R prints the elements of a vector horizontally?
> 1:5 [1] 1 2 3 4 5
Today I needed the elements printed one per line. After a bit of searching and hair-pulling, I stumbled upon the cat command:
> cat(1:5,sep="\n") 1 2 3 4 5
This is particularly useful when you need a line-by-line list of the variables in a data frame, which you can get with:
cat(names(dataframe),sep="\n")
To output the list directly to a file, use write instead of cat.
[T]hinking outside the box might be facilitated by having a somewhat less intact box.
Source: de Manzano Ö, Cervenka S, Karabanov A, Farde L, Ullén F (2010) Thinking Outside a Less Intact Box: Thalamic Dopamine D2 Receptor Densities Are Negatively Related to Psychometric Creativity in Healthy Individuals. PLoS ONE 5(5): e10670. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010670
