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Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to
predict the future is to invent it.
-- Alan Kay
Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to
predict the future is to invent it.
-- Alan Kay
Getting back to failing early, I've learned it's important to completely
fail. Get fired. Shoot the project, then burn its corpse. Melt the CVS
repository and microwave the backup CDs. When things go wrong, I've
often tried to play the hero from start to finish. Guess what? Some
projects are doomed no matter what. Some need skills I don't possess.
And some need a fresh face.
-- Reginald Braithwaite
All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of
indirection.
-- Butler Lampson
XML wasn't designed to be edited by humans on a regular basis.
-- Guido van Rossum
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Cited by Randy Pausch
La tactique, c'est ce que vous faites quand il y a quelque chose à
faire; la stratégie, c'est ce que vous faites quand il n'y a rien à
faire.
-- Xavier Tartacover
To do something well you have to love it. So to the extent you can
preserve hacking as something you love, you're likely to do it well. Try
to keep the sense of wonder you had about programming at age 14. If
you're worried that your current job is rotting your brain, it probably
is.
-- Paul Graham.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from
him.
-- Galileo Galilei
For complex systems, the compiler and development environment need to be
in the same language that its supporting. It's the only way to grow
code.
-- Alan Kay
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring
aircraft building progress by weight.
-- Bill Gates
We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection. It's about a process,
a journey. The master is the one who stays on the path day after day, year after
year. The master is the one who is willing to try, and fail, and try again, for
as long as he or she lives.
-- George Leonard, Mastery.
La haine est une liqueur précieuse, un poison plus cher que celui des
Borgia, - car il est fait avec notre sang, notre santé, notre sommeil,
et les deux tiers de notre amour! Il faut en être avare!
-- Charles Baudelaire, Conseils aux jeunes littérateurs.
Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OSes is like saying
that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
-- Alanna
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops
until you stand up to speak in public.
-- Anonymous
It is better to be quiet and thought a fool than to open your mouth and
remove all doubt.
-- WikiHow
If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be
the process of putting them in.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
-- John Lennon
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
-- John Lennon
The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in
five words: "I did not have time."
-- WestHost weekly newsletter 14 Feb 2003
While I’ve always appreciated beautiful code, I share Jonathan’s concern
about studying it too much. I think studying beauty in music and
painting has led us to modern classical music and painting that the
majority of us just don’t get. Beauty can be seen when it emerges, but
isn’t something to strive for in isolation of a larger context. In the
software world, the larger context would be the utility of the software
to the end user.
-- [A comment on a blog]
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time:
premature optimization is the root of all evil.
-- Donald Knuth
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
-- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring
aircraft building progress by weight.
-- Bill Gates
C and Lisp stand at opposite ends of the spectrum; they're each great at
what the other one sucks at.
-- Steve Yegge, Tour de Babel.
When your enemy is making a very serious mistake, don't be impolite and
disturb him.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte (allegedly)
Fools! Don't they know that tears are a woman's most effective weapon?
-- Catwoman (The Batman TV Series, episode 83)
I'm always happy to trade performance for readability as long as the
former isn't already scarce.
-- Crayz (Commentor on blog.raganwald.com)
Do you want to sell sugared water all your life or do you want to change
the world?
-- Steve Jobs, to John Sculley (former Pepsi executive)
Code is poetry.
-- wordpress.org
I'm always happy to trade performance for readability as long as the
former isn't already scarce.
-- Crayz (Commentor on blog.raganwald.com)
Revolutions come from standing on the shoulders of giants and facing in
a better direction.
-- Alan Kay
Mastering isn’t a survival instinct; it’s an urge to excel. Mastering is
one of the experiences that delineates us from animals. It is striving
to be more tomorrow than we are today; to perfectly pitch the ball over
home plate; to craft the perfect sentence in an article; to open the
oven and feel the warm, richly-scented cloud telling you dinner is going
to be absolutely extraordinary. We humans crave perfection, to be
masters of our domain, to distinguish ourselves by sheer skill and
prowess.
-- Joesgoals.com
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring
aircraft building progress by weight.
-- Bill Gates
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
-- Rush (Freewill)
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
-- Cicero
The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak.
-- J. B. Bossuet, Politics from Holy Writ, 1709
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way
that will allow a solution.
-- Bertrand Russell