One way to look at the computer glitch malfunction for the
2008 Space Needle Fireworks Celebration is that we got extra time to savor the welcoming of 2008. What would normally have been an 8 minute show turned out to be 10+ minutes. All the more time to inspire ourselves for this new year. In continuation with the previous post...
"The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish."
- Donald Knuth
As
Brian Scarbeau pointed out, see Randy Pausch's final lecture at Carnegie Mellon at:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=362421849901825950&hl=en