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An interpreter raises the machine to the level of the user program; a
compiler lowers the user program to the level of the machine language.
-- SICP
An interpreter raises the machine to the level of the user program; a
compiler lowers the user program to the level of the machine language.
-- SICP
It is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally
vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
-- Edsger Dijkstra
Any sufficiently advanced technology is undistinguishable from magic.
-- Arthur C. Clarke
To follow the path:
look to the master,
follow the master,
walk with the master,
see through the master,
become the master.
-- Modern zen Poem
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it.
Geniuses remove it.
-- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)
Why teach drawing to accountants? Because drawing class doesn't just
teach people to draw. It teaches them to be more observant. There's no
company on earth that wouldn't benefit from having people become more
observant.
-- Randy S. Nelson (dean of Pixar University)
Well, if you talk about programming to a group of programmers who use
the same language, they can become almost evangelistic about the
language. They form a tight-knit community, hold to certain beliefs, and
follow certain rules in their programming. It’s like a church with a
programming language for a Bible.
-- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).
Talkers are no good doers.
-- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
Lisp programmers know the value of everything but the cost of nothing.
-- Alan J. Perlis
First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a
programming style. Then forget all that and just hack.
-- George Carrette
It was Edison who said ‘1% inspiration, 99% perspiration’. That may have
been true a hundred years ago. These days it's ‘0.01% inspiration,
99.99% perspiration’, and the inspiration is the easy part.
-- Linux Torvalds
A non negative binary integer value x is a power of 2 iff (x & (x-1)) is
0 using 2's complement arithmetic.
-- [fact]
No matter how much you plan you’re likely to get half wrong anyway. So
don’t do the ‘paralysis through analysis’ thing. That only slows
progress and saps morale.
-- 37 Signal, Getting real
In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice. But in
practice, there is.
-- Albert Einstein
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally
better than your dreams.
-- Dr. Seuss
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can
become great.
-- Mark Twain
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
-- Albert Einstein
Only bad designers blame their failings on the users.
-- unknown
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature,
because God is not capricious or arbitrary.
-- Frederick P. Brooks, No Sliver Bullet.
Students should be evaluated on how well they can achieve the goals they
strived to achieve within a realistic context. Students need to learn to
do things, not know things.
-- Roger Schank, Engines for Education
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
-- Seneca
Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.
-- Randy Pausch
Il y a très loin de la velléité à la volnt, de la volonté à la résolution, de la
résolution au choix des moyens, du choix ds moyens à lapplication.
-- Jean-François Paul de Gondi de Retz
Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.
-- Ralph Johnson
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the
results.
-- Winston Churchill
Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months
might as well have been written by someone else.
-- Eagleson’s Law
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Cited by Randy Pausch
Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
-- Thomas Edison
Revolutions come from standing on the shoulders of giants and facing in
a better direction.
-- Alan Kay
Philosophy: the finding of bad reasons for what one believes by
instinct.
-- Brave New World (paraphrased)
Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir
de la faire plus courte. (I have made this letter so long only because I
did not have the leisure to make it shorter.)
-- Blaise Pascal (Lettres Provinciales)
It is better to be quiet and thought a fool than to open your mouth and
remove all doubt.
-- WikiHow