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
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Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
-- Brian Kernigan
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The best people and organizations have the attitude of wisdom: The
courage to act on what they know right now and the humility to change
course when they find better evidence.
The quest for management magic and breakthrough ideas is overrated;
being a master of the obvious is underrated.
Jim Maloney is right: Work is an overrated activity
-- Bob Sutton
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It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students
that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they
are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
-- E. W. Dijkstra
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You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can
handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then
handle five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more
ease, more mastery and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.
-- Pablo Picasso
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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations
which we can perform without thinking about them.
-- Alfred North Whitehead (Introduction to Mathematics)
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Philosophy: the finding of bad reasons for what one believes by
instinct.
-- Brave New World (paraphrased)
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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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As builders and creators finding the perfect solution should not be our
main goal. We should find the perfect problem.
-- Isaac (blog comment)
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
-- Albert Einstein
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Only make new mistakes.
-- Phil Dourado
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The problem is that small examples fail to convince, and large examples
are too big to follow.
-- Steve Yegge.
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It’s a problem if the design doesn’t let you add features at a later
date. If you have to redo a program, the hours you spend can cause you
to lose your competitive edge. A flexible program demonstrates the
difference between a good designer and someone who is just getting a
piece of code out.
-- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).
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In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume
that it is true and try to find out what it could be true of.
-- George Miller
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The only problems we can really solve in a satisfactory manner are those
that finally admit a nicely factored solution.
-- E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer
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The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create
more leaders.
-- Ralph Nader
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Quality of the people is better than the quality of the business idea.
Crappy people can screw up the best idea in the world.
-- Hadi Partovi & Ali Partovi (iLike.com), Talk at StartupSchool2007
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Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
-- Earl of Chesterfield
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For complex systems, the compiler and development environment need to be
in the same language that its supporting. It's the only way to grow
code.
-- Alan Kay
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It(mastering)’s knowing what you are doing.
-- Joesgoals.com
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To do something well you have to love it. So to the extent you can
preserve hacking as something you love, you're likely to do it well. Try
to keep the sense of wonder you had about programming at age 14. If
you're worried that your current job is rotting your brain, it probably
is.
-- Paul Graham.
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J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de
l'indifférence.
-- Anatole France
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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
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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
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Some people suggest that machines would be friendlier if input could be
in a natural language. But natural language is probably the worst kind
of input because it can be quite ambiguous. The process of retrieving
information from the computer would be so time-consuming that you would
be better off spending that time getting the information directly from
an expert.
-- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).
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Simple things should be simple. Complex things should be possible.
-- Alan Kay
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Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.
-- Ralph Johnson
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Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
-- Seneca
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If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines
produced but as lines spent.
-- Edsger Dijkstra
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You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it
right, it is obvious that it is right.
-- Richard Feynman
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The direct pursuit of happiness is a recipe for an unhappy life.
-- Donald Campbell
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We really have to get over the idea that some stuff is just worth
knowing even if you never do anything with it. Human memories happily
erase stuff that has no purpose, so why try to fill up children's heads
with such stuff?
-- Roger Schank, Engines for Education
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XML wasn't designed to be edited by humans on a regular basis.
-- Guido van Rossum
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If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as lines
produced but as lines spent.
-- Edsger Dijkstra
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Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it ain't
fun -- it's entertainment.
-- David Mamet (as relayed by Joss Whedon)
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Mistakes were made.
-- Ronald Reagan
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[How friendly will this machine be?] Well, I don’t think it’s a matter
of friendliness, because ultimately if the program is going to
accomplish anything of value, it will probably be relatively complex.
-- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).
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Ne te mets pas de limite, la vie se chargera de la mettre a ta place.
-- Darryl AMEDON
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