Bill Arnett

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html lang="en"> <HEAD> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <TITLE>Bill Arnett</TITLE> </head> <body style="background-image: url('img/xhatch2.png')"> <p> <table border=1 width="100%"><tr> <th><img src="img/ba2.gif" height=57 width="300" alt="Bill Arnett"></th> <th width="1"><img src="img/bill.jpg" alt="Bill Arnett" height="200" width="200" border=0></th> </tr></table> <p> <table border=1 width="100%"><tr><th width="250">About Bill Arnett</th><td></td></tr></table> <dl> <dt><strong>Background</strong>:<dd> By training and profession, I'm a software engineer. But I've tried over the years to learn a little about a lot of things. I sometimes envy the great men of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment who had a very real possibility of learning a large fraction of all human knowledge. But then I think of all we have achieved since then and I know I have the better deal. <p> <dt><strong>My Motto</strong>:<dd> "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." <p> <dt><strong>Favorite quotes</strong>:<dd> "I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of ambrosia, the food of the gods." -- Claudius Ptolemaeus (<a href="http://obs.nineplanets.org/psc/theman.html">Ptolemy</a>) <p> "Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by ignorance." -- Oscar Wilde <p> "It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." -- James Thurber <p> "Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself." -- Richard Feynman <p> "Captain, the most elementary and valuable statement in science, the beginning of wisdom, is 'I do not know.'" -- Lt. Commander Data <p> "For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream." -- Vincent van Gogh <p> "If we die, do not mourn for us. This is a risky business we're in, and we accept those risks. The space program is too valuable to this country to be halted for too long if a disaster should ever happen." -- Gus Grissom, three weeks before he was killed in the <a href="http://www.nasm.edu:80/APOLLO/AS01/Apollo1_fact.html">Apollo 1</a> fire. <p> <dt><strong>Favorite quips</strong>:<dd> "The meek shall inherit the Earth. The rest of us will go to the stars." <p> "I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat vegetables." <p> "Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy." - H.L. Mencken <p> "Quantum Mechanics: the dreams stuff is made of." </dl> <table border=1 width="100%"><tr><th width="250">Contacting Bill Arnett</th><td></td></tr></table> <dl> <dt><strong>Email</strong>:<dd> bill at arnett dot us dot com<br> <p> <dt><strong>LinkedIn</strong>:<dd> Click <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/billarnett">here</a> for my LinkedIn profile. </dl> <table border=1 width="100%"><tr><th width="250">Site Map</th><td></td></tr></table> <dl> <dt><dd> <a href="index.html">Links to the rest of the pages on this site</a>. </dl> <table border=1 width="100%"><tr><th width=250>A final thought</th><td></td></tr></table> <table cellspacing=20> <tr> <td> <a href="img/ThreeShipsfull.jpg"><img alt="Three Ships" src="img/ThreeShips.jpg" height=205 width="200" border=0></a><br> </td> <td> It is not too late to seek a newer world.<br> Push off, and sitting well in order smite<br> The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds<br> To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths<br> Of all the western stars, until I die.<br> <p>       -- Alfred Tennyson, "<a href="http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/britlit/tenn/ulysses.html">Ulysses</a>" </td> </tr> </table> <br clear=all> <table border=1 width="100%"><tr><th> </th><td width="200" align=center> Last updated: 2010 Oct 19 </td></tr></table> <dl><dt></dt><dd> All content on this site is <a href="http://arnett.us.com/copyright.html">Copyright ©</a> 2010 by Bill Arnett. </dd></dl> <p> <table border=1 width="100%"><tr><th width="250">My "hit counter":</th><td></td></tr></table> <dl> <center> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </center> <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-412518-5"; urchinTracker(); </script> </dl> </body></html>

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