Rick Cook

Person · Open Library

Works

16

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1931-01-22

Active to

1964-12-11

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

118

Total plays

6,496

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,520x

2. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,412x

3. Electron affinities of the first-row atoms revisited. Systematic basis sets and wave functions

   · 1992 · cited 14,784x

4. Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks

   · 2001 · cited 13,442x

5. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis

   · 2022 · cited 13,151x

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Quotes

• “Wiz thought about what it would be like to work with a computer that killed the programmer every time it crashed and shuddered.”
• “It is a pity the universe doesn't use a segmented architecture with a protected mode!”
• “Murphy said, 'Constants aren't', and Murphy was apparently one of the gods of this universe.”
• “He deliberately left them out of the code. After all, he rationalized, this is only version 1.0.”
• “Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”
• “Judith looked at the demons and shook her head. "I'm glad we didn't build four processors. I'm not sure I could take a barbershop quartet!"”

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Wikidata facts

Official website

rickcooks.blogspot.com

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