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).
RE: Bye Steem!
You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
Bye Steem!
Talkers are no good doers.
-- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Lisp programmers know the value of everything but the cost of nothing.
-- Alan J. Perlis
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
La haine est une liqueur précieuse, un poison plus cher que celui des
Borgia, - car il est fait avec notre sang, notre santé, notre sommeil,
et les deux tiers de notre amour! Il faut en être avare!
-- Charles Baudelaire, Conseils aux jeunes littérateurs.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Workers of the world, the chains that bind you are not held in place by
a ruling class, a "superior" race, by society, the state, or a leader.
They are held in place by none other than yourself. Those who seek to
exploit are not themselves free, for they place no value in freedom. Who
is it that really employs you and commands you to pick up your daily
load? And who is it that you allow to pass judgment on the adequacy of
your toil? Who have you empowered to dangle the carrot before you and
threaten with disapproval? Who, when you wake each morning, sends you
off to what you call your work?
Is there an "I want to" behind all your "I have to," or have you been so
long forgotten to yourself that "I want" exists only as an idea in your
head? If you have disconnected from your soul's desire and are drowning
in an ocean of "have to," then rise up and overthrow your master. Begin
the journey toward emancipation. Work only in such a way that you are
truly self-employed.
-- Tim Gallwey, The inner game of work
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
The programmer must seek both perfection of part and adequacy of
collection.
-- Alan J. Perlis
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's
a duck.
-- Official definition of "duck typing"
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Argue with idiots, and you become an idiot.
If you compete with slaves you become a slave.
-- Paul Graham and Norbert Weiner, respectively
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Being a programmer is the same way. The only way to be a good programmer
is to write code. When you realize you haven't been writing much code
lately, and it seems like all you do is brag about code you wrote in the
past, and people start looking at you funny while you're shooting your
mouth off, realize it's because they know. They might not even know they
know, but they know. So, yes, doing what you love brings success, and by
all means, throw yourself a nice big party, buy yourself a nice car,
soak up the adulation of an adoring crowd. Then shut the fuck up and get
back to work.
-- Sincerity Theory
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
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).
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
The best is the enemy of the good.
-- Voltaire
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce.
-- Scott McKay
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.
-- Ralph Johnson
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
What do Americans look for in a car? I've heard many answers when I've
asked this question. The answers include excellent safety ratings, great
gas mileage, handling, and cornering ability, among others. I don't
believe any of these. That's because the first principle of the Culture
Code is that the only effective way to understand what people truly mean
is to ignore what they say. This is not to suggest that people
intentionally lie or misrepresent themselves. What it means is that,
when asked direct questions about their interests and preferences,
people tend to give answers they believe the questioner wants to hear.
Again, this is not because they intend to mislead. It is because people
respond to these questions with their cortexes, the parts of their
brains that control intelligence rather than emotion or instinct. They
ponder a question, they process a question, and when they deliver an
answer, it is the product of deliberation. They believe they are telling
the truth. A lie detector would confirm this. In most cases, however,
they aren't saying what they mean.
-- The culture code.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
The only constant in the world of hi-tech is change.
-- Mark Ward
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Simplicity and pragmatism beat complexity and theory any day.
-- Dennis (blog comment)
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice. But in
practice, there is.
-- Albert Einstein
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
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.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming
high enough.
-- Alan Kay
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any
more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert
painter.
-- Eric Raymond
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
The only constant in the world of hi-tech is change.
-- Mark Ward
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a
programming style. Then forget all that and just hack.
-- George Carrette
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
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
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
A non negative binary integer value x is a power of 2 iff (x & (x-1)) is
0 using 2's complement arithmetic.
-- [fact]
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
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
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice. But in
practice, there is.
-- Albert Einstein
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit