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RE: Bye Steem!
J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de
l'indifférence.
-- Anatole France
J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de
l'indifférence.
-- Anatole France
Its a shame that the students of our generation grew up with windows and
mice because that tainted our mindset not to think in terms of powerful
tools. Some of us are just so tainted that we will never recover.
-- Jeffrey Mark Siskind qobi@research.nj.nec.com in comp.lang.lisp
Fools! Don't they know that tears are a woman's most effective weapon?
-- Catwoman (The Batman TV Series, episode 83)
I’d rather write programs to write programs than write programs.
-- Richard Sites
Sound methodology can empower and liberate the creative mind; it cannot inflame
or inspire the drudge.
-- Frederick P. Brooks, No Sliver Bullet.
It’s hard to grasp abstractions if you don’t understand what they’re
abstracting away from.
-- Nathan Weizenbaum
Code is poetry.
-- wordpress.org
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary
words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a
drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary
parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or
avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word
tell.
-- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)
-- [Ideas for flamewars]
The programmer must seek both perfection of part and adequacy of
collection.
-- Alan J. Perlis
New eyes have X-ray vision. [someone that hasn't written it is more
likely to spot the bug. "someone" can be you after a break]
-- William S. Annis
The choice of the university is mostly important for the piece of paper
you get at the end. The education you get depends on you.
-- Andreas Zwinkau
I think that a lot of programmers are ignoring an important point when
people talk about reducing code repetition on large projects.
Part of the idea is that large projects are intrinsically wrong. That
you should be looking at making a number of smaller projects that are
composable, even if you never end up reusing one of those smaller
projects elsewhere.
-- Dan Nugent
No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to
excel in it.
-- Alberti
The problem is that small examples fail to convince, and large examples
are too big to follow.
-- Steve Yegge.
We tend to seek easy, single-factor explanations of success. For most
important things, though, success actually requires avoiding many
separate causes of failure.
-- Jared Diamond
Resume writing is just like dating, or applying for a bank loan, in that
nobody wants you if you're desperate.
-- Steve Yegge.
A no uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a yes merely
uttered to please or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
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
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming
high enough.
-- Alan Kay
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the
results.
-- Winston Churchill
Seize any opportunity, or anything that looks like opportunity. They are
rare, much rarer than you think...
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, "The Black Swan".
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
-- Thomas Jefferson
The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference.
-- Elie Wiesel
The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you get a round one.
-- Douglas Crockford (Author of JSON and JsLint)
I think that a lot of programmers are ignoring an important point when
people talk about reducing code repetition on large projects.
Part of the idea is that large projects are intrinsically wrong. That
you should be looking at making a number of smaller projects that are
composable, even if you never end up reusing one of those smaller
projects elsewhere.
-- Dan Nugent
Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to
predict the future is to invent it.
-- Alan Kay
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way
that will allow a solution.
-- Bertrand Russell
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete
themselves upon execution.
-- Robert Sewell
Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to
predict the future is to invent it.
-- Alan Kay
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a
while, you could miss it.
-- Ferris Bueller
Ce n’est que par les beaux sentiments qu’on parvient à la fortune !
-- Charles Baudelaire, Conseils aux jeunes littérateurs.