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RE: Bye Steem!
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in
God.
-- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in
God.
-- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)
It's no trick for talented people to be interesting, but it's a gift to
be interested. We want an organization filled with interested people.
-- Randy S. Nelson (dean of Pixar University)
Remember that you are humans in the first place and only after that
programmers.
-- Alexandru Vancea
Give up control. You never really had it anyway.
-- How to fail: 25 secrets learned through failure
I feel it is everybodies obligation to reach for the best in themselves
and use that for the interest of mankind.
-- Corneluis (comment on 'Are you going to change the world? (Really?)')
Ce n’est que par les beaux sentiments qu’on parvient à la fortune !
-- Charles Baudelaire, Conseils aux jeunes littérateurs.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are always cocksure and
the intelligent are always filled with doubt.
-- Bertrand Russell
A witty saying proves nothing
-- Voltaire
Work as intensely as you play and play as intensely as you work.
-- Eric S. Raymond, How To Be A Hacker
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
-- Cicero
Functional programming is to algorithms as the ubiquitous little black
dress is to women's fashion.
-- Mark Tarver (of "The bipolar Lisp programmer" fame)
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be
regarded as a criminal offense.
-- E.W. Dijkstra
What Paul does, and does very well, is to take ideas and concepts that
are beautiful in the abstract, and brings them down to a real world
level. That's a rare talent to find in writing these days.
-- Jeff "hemos" Bates, Director, OSDN; Co-evolver, Slashdot
The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create
more leaders.
-- Ralph Nader
Never do the impossible. People will expect you to do it forever after.
-- pigsandfishes.com
Sound methodology can empower and liberate the creative mind; it cannot inflame
or inspire the drudge.
-- Frederick P. Brooks, No Sliver Bullet.
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]
Hire people smarter than you. Work with people smarter than you.
Listen to them. Let them lead you. Take the blame for all failures,
give away the credit for all successes.
-- How to fail: 25 secrets learned through failure
Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally
for machines to execute.
-- Alan J. Perlis
Good coders code, great reuse.
-- http://www.catonmat.net
You think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can write,
even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
-- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have
C++ in mind.
-- Alan Kay
Measure everything you can about the product, and you'll start seeing
patterns.
-- Max Levchin, PayPal founder, Talk at StartupSchool2007
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from
him.
-- Galileo Galilei
Revolutions come from standing on the shoulders of giants and facing in
a better direction.
-- Alan Kay
What I didn't understand was that the value of some new acquisition
wasn't the difference between its retail price and what I paid for it.
It was the value I derived from it. Stuff is an extremely illiquid
asset. Unless you have some plan for selling that valuable thing you got
so cheaply, what difference does it make what it's "worth?" The only way
you're ever going to extract any value from it is to use it. And if you
don't have any immediate use for it, you probably never will.
-- Paul Graham
All great things require great dedication.
-- Chuck Norris(?)
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
We are the sum of our behaviours; excellence therefore is not an act but
a habit.
-- Aristotle.
Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it)
in programming.
-- Donald Knuth
What I didn't understand was that the value of some new acquisition
wasn't the difference between its retail price and what I paid for it.
It was the value I derived from it. Stuff is an extremely illiquid
asset. Unless you have some plan for selling that valuable thing you got
so cheaply, what difference does it make what it's "worth?" The only way
you're ever going to extract any value from it is to use it. And if you
don't have any immediate use for it, you probably never will.
-- Paul Graham
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
Des mots simples, quand ils sont bien utilisés, font faire à des gens
ordinaires des choses extraordinaires.
-- Khaled TANGAO
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
If there is a will, there is a way.
-- unknown
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
-- George Burns
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Cited by Randy Pausch
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
-- Albert Einstein
I feel it is everybodies obligation to reach for the best in themselves
and use that for the interest of mankind.
-- Corneluis (comment on 'Are you going to change the world? (Really?)')
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein