John B. Connely, Professor, Emeritus
Computer Science Department
California Polytechnic State University
Aristotle
...The primary question was not What do we know, but How do we know it?
Artemis Ward
...It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble.
It's the things we know that ain't so.
Alfred Korzybski
...The map is not the territory.
Confucious, The Analects
...If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs
cannot be carried on to success.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
...The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Will Rogers
...Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Goethe
...[Most] ... thoughts have been thought already thousands of
times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again
honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
Kipling
...Nothing is ever settled until it is settled right
[A good attitude toward programming!]
Socratic method
...It is not intellectually honest to hold a position after
it is known that the position leads inevitably to other positions
which are recognized as false. The respect for honesty, involves,
thus, the respect for consistency.
Russell B. Long
Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have
your feet wet.
Responsibilities:
Teaches classes in file structures, C, UNIX, UNIX system calls,
the nature of programming languages, assembly language/architecture,
operating systems.
Contact Information
Office: 14-240
Fax: (805) 756-2956
Email: jconnely@calpoly.edu
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Computer Science Department
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Not on campus Spring or Summer 2009.
Last updated on July 22, 2009