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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 [email protected] 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

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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)

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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

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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.

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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

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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

  ·  5 years ago Reveal Comment

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

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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.