They who would give up an essential freedom for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.
(Benjamin Franklin)

When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us vs. them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there.
(George W. Bush)

I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.
(George W. Bush)

It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
(Edsger W. Dijkstra)


I am one of the less fortunate people whose name contains a character that is not part of the English language. This sometimes causes great confusion and unreadable name badges. The correct spelling of my last name is Büttcher. The usual transliteration into languages without umlauts is Buettcher. If your local grocery store does not sell any umlauts this season, feel free to use the latter version.

Incidentally, when visiting the Museum of Flight in Seattle, I found out that the name of William Boeing's father originally had been Böing, but he changed it to Boeing after they came to the United States, because the umlaut caused him too much trouble.

I am nerdier than 93% of all people. Are you nerdier? Click here to find out!   My eMail address:   stefan (at) buettcher (dot) org

Please get my GnuPG Public Key (also works with PGP) if you want to send me an eMail. I enjoy my privacy.

If you are a spammer, you may also use this address: temp2007@stefan-buettcher.de. It is part of an ongoing experiment on how putting my e-mail address here affects the amount of spam I receive.