Wisdom I Pondered This Week

• “We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth.” — Seneca
• “There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.” — John Lennon
• “If you win, you need not have to explain…If you lose, you should not be there to explain!” — Adolf Hitler
• “Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.” — T.S. Eliot
• “What one has to do usually can be done.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

Things I Learned This Week

• 貝雷帽 (Beret)
• A bug bounty program is a deal offered by many websites, organizations, and software developers by which individuals can receive recognition and compensation for reporting bugs, especially those pertaining to security exploits and vulnerabilities.
• “For Dummies” guides is a series of instructional reference books which are intended to provide simple introduction/instruction that explain things in various fields, in a way that’s really easy to understand.
• The Lucas sequence has the same recursive relationship as the Fibonacci sequence, where each term is the sum of the two previous terms, but with different starting values.
• F.B.I. and C.I.A. recruit heavily from the Mormon (摩門教) population because they are usually cheaper to do a security clearance on, they often speak another language from their mission trips and they usually have a low risk lifestyle.