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RE: Bye Steem!
So the mere constraint of staying in regular contact with us will push
you to make things happen, because otherwise you'll be embarrassed to
tell us that you haven't done anything new since the last time we
talked.
-- Paul Graham (a talk at Y Combinator, for startup creators).
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations
which we can perform without thinking about them.
-- Alfred North Whitehead (Introduction to Mathematics)
Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM, which is more than any
application will ever need.
-- Microsoft, on the development of Windows NT, 1992
J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de
l'indifférence.
-- Anatole France
Talkers are no good doers.
-- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
All great things require great dedication.
-- Chuck Norris(?)
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
-- Seneca
Humans differ from animals to the degree that they are not merely an end
result of their conditioning, but are able to reflect on their
experiences and strategies, and apply insight to make changes in the way
they live to modify the outcome.
-- SlideTrombone (comment on "Programming can ruin your life")
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein
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
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
-- L. Peter Deutsch
Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
-- Earl of Chesterfield
Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to
think out every case.
-- Francis Glassborow
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.
-- Mario Andretti
Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder.
Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.
-- Erik Naggum
It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible
to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with
such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.
-- John Von Neumann, circa 1949
Remember that you are humans in the first place and only after that
programmers.
-- Alexandru Vancea
Are you willing to wear your white belt?
-- George Leonard, Mastery.
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a
violent psychopath who knows where you live.
-- Martin Golding