“Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do; strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.” – Savielly Tartakower
“There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don’t.” – unknown
“Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.” – unknown
“Suffer the pain of discipline, or suffer the pain of regret.” – unknown
“They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett
“History does not repeat, it rhymes.” – Svetlana Savranskaya
“A copyleft is a copyright by another name.” – Sendmail Configuration Readme
“What something is depends more on when it is than anything else.” – Frank Zappa
“You can count on America to do the right thing, after it has exhausted all the other possibilities.” – Winston Churchill
“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” – unknown
“Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise.” – Ted Turner
“If it takes too much effort, you are probably doing it wrong.” – unknown
“Respond, don’t react!” – unknown
“People who expect to be ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.” – Thomas Jefferson
“An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less until eventually he knows everything about nothing.” – unknown
“It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.” – Ecclesiastes 7:5
“I don’t know what I think until I have read what I wrote.” – Flannery O’Connor
“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” – André Gide
‟We have not inherited the world from our forefathers – we have borrowed it from our children.” – Kashmiri proverb
Below are software specifications for a distributed application designed and developed for a leading energy company to help manage R&D efforts of scientists on algae research ponds at different sites. In addition to design requirements, scripts were developed in Visual Basic for Applications, SQL and Perl to import existing data from Excel workbooks.