About me
Personal
My name is Michael Schermann and I am an PhD student and research assistant at the Chair for Information Systems at the Technische Universität München (TUM). Not-work related thoughts can be found at schermann.de (in German).
Contact
You can always reach me at mail (at) zemeigo (dot) net. I am definitely going to answer - it may take a while but you will get a reply. My skype name is zemeigo. Do not try to call me to make first contact - use the IM.
Thoughts that deserve to be read once in a while
No matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white. (Karl R. Popper)
More than gold, lead changed the world--and more than the lead of a gun, the lead in a letter case. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. (probably Benjamin Franklin)
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve. (Karl R. Popper)
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. (Albert Einstein)
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing — that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. (Richard P. Feynman)
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons. (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams)