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Samurai Jack
From Nickelodeon's series "Samurai Jack". These statements are not canonical to the show/series.
Samurai Jack was trapped in the future until some mean wizard Apu let him go.
Few know that Samurai Jack was an elite coder, but Apu knew, and wanted him to create something with his skillz.
Samurai Jack was so good, he turned a O(n4) problem into a O(1) problem. The answer was simply "yes".
- Translation: Four parameters to a function or command-line are as many as you'll EVER need -- with the possible exception of meta-functions, like a compiler, where the answer is five. (Two is all you might need if your language has objects.) The universe figured it out with four dimensions, your problem probably isn't more complicated. Most balkanized functions are really just a series of smaller functions which would make it all more usable.
- Translation: The nature of data is interconnected. All data, apart from simulations, is related to the real world, so he defined a epistemology and applied everything in the world to it. Three dimensions (plus one of color) of visualization was all that it took.
- Translation: Sometimes you can *simulate* reality to solve a problem.
- Translation: Bug-free code is possible, but you have to be a master.
- Translation: The world is still looking for the problem, but the Singularity project has the answer.
Master Jack was working on some code, when a protege asked him: "What the purpose of the computer?" Samurai Jack responded "To remember ourself." "There is only one?", the student asked. "No." and stayed silent.
Master Bindu asked Samurai Jack, what is the ultimate nature of the computer? He replied, "The ultimate nature is 'difference' -- that the world can be divided until there are only two.".
Singularity