RE: Bye Steem!

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Bye Steem!

in hive •  5 years ago 

Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last
recourse against randomness is how you act — if you can’t control
outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will
always have the last word.
-- Nassim Taleb

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Simplicity and pragmatism beat complexity and theory any day.
-- Dennis (blog comment)

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
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The reason to do animation is caricature. Good caricature picks out the
essense of the statement and removes everything else. It's not simply
about reproducing reality; It's about bumping it up.
-- Brad Bird, writer and director, The Incredibles

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C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce.
-- Scott McKay

I think it is wise, and only honest, to warn you that my goal is
immodest. It is not my purpose to "transfer knowledge" to you that,
subsequently, you can forget again. My purpose is no less than to
effectuate in each of you a noticeable, irreversable change. I want you
to gain, for the rest of your lives, the insight that beautiful proofs
are not "found" by trial anf error but are the result of a consciously
applied design discipline. I want you to raise your quality standards. I
mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and
dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and
say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would
be enough immortality for me.
-- E. W. Dijkstra

Programming is the art of figuring out what you want so precisely that
even a machine can do it.
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There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make
it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way
is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The
first method is far more difficult.
-- C. A. R. Hoare

One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking
zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C
programs.
-- Robert Firth

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

When your enemy is making a very serious mistake, don't be impolite and
disturb him.
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Only make new mistakes.
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Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
-- Brian Kernigan

There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make
it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way
is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The
first method is far more difficult.
-- C. A. R. Hoare

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

  ·  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

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

Ce n’est que par les beaux sentiments qu’on parvient à la fortune !
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they
were to success when they gave up.
-- Thomas Edison

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Normality is the route to nowhere.
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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)

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button
finger.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

A person won't become proficient at something until he or she has done
it many times. In other words., if you want someone to be really good at
building a software system, he or she will have to have built 10 or more
systems of that type.
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The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a
little way past them into the impossible.
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It’s hard to grasp abstractions if you don’t understand what they’re
abstracting away from.
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Simple things should be simple. Complex things should be possible.
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Having large case statements in an object-oriented language is a sure
sign your design is flawed.
-- [Fixing architecture flaws in Rails' ORM]

I had to learn how to teach less, so that more could be learned.
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