RE: Bye Steem!

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Bye Steem!

in hive •  5 years ago 

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and
reflect.
-- Mark Twain

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I was talking recently to a friend who teaches at MIT. His field is hot
now and every year he is inundated by applications from would-be
graduate students. "A lot of them seem smart," he said. "What I can't
tell is whether they have any kind of taste."
-- Paul Graham

Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally
for machines to execute.
-- Alan J. Perlis

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a
violent psychopath who knows where you live.
-- Martin Golding

Photography is painting with light.
-- Eric Hamilton

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in
God.
-- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

Good work is no done by ‘humble’ men.
-- H. Hardy, A mathematician's apology.

Remember, always be yourself ... unless you suck!
-- Joss Whedon

Argue with idiots, and you become an idiot.
If you compete with slaves you become a slave.
-- Paul Graham and Norbert Weiner, respectively

You can have premature generalization as well as premature optimization.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup

Premature abstraction is an equally grevious sin as premature
optimization.
-- Keith Devens

Je crois au flooding.
-- Karim BAINA (en parlant du dailogue avec les administrations)

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average
lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000
times the price of an average software writer.
-- Bill Gates

PI seconds is a nanocentury.
-- [fact]

It's like a condom; I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and
not have it.
-- some chick in Alien vs. Predator, when asked why she
always carries a gun

The programmer must seek both perfection of part and adequacy of
collection.
-- Alan J. Perlis

My dream is that people adopt it on its own merits. We're not trying to
bend Ruby on Rails to fit the enterprise, we're encouraging enterprises
to bend to Ruby on Rails. Come if you like it, stay away if you don't.
We're not going head over heels to accommodate the enterprise or to lure
them away from Java. That's how you end up with Java, if you start
bending to special interest groups.
-- David Heinemeier Hansson (Ruby On Rails' creator)

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be
regarded as a criminal offense.
-- E.W. Dijkstra

No problem should ever have to be solved twice.
-- Eric S. Raymond, How to become a hacker

I guess, when you're drunk, every woman looks beautiful and every
language looks (like) a Lisp :)
-- Lament, #scheme@freenode.net

We are the sum of our behaviours; excellence therefore is not an act but
a habit.
-- Aristotle.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
-- Mark Twain

Simple things should be simple. Complex things should be possible.
-- Alan Kay

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)

PI seconds is a nanocentury.
-- [fact]

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

Seize any opportunity, or anything that looks like opportunity. They are
rare, much rarer than you think...
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, "The Black Swan".

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)

Mistakes were made.
-- Ronald Reagan

If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete
themselves upon execution.
-- Robert Sewell

I think there’s a world market for about 5 computers.
-- Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM, circa 1948

Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc,
informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common
Lisp.
-- Philip Greenspun (Greenspun's Tenth Rule)

Bonne bosse et reste le boss.
-- Darryl Amedon