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Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Cited by Randy Pausch
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A tail call allows a function to return the result of another function
without leaving an entry on the stack. Tail recursion is a specific case
of tail calling.
-- ASPN : Python Cookbook : Explicit Tail Call
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Do not accept anything because it comes from the mouth of a respected person.
-- Buddha
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Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a
computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it
transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our
most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.
-- Edsger Dijkstra, CACM, 15:10
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
-- Cicero
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A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no
longuer anything to add, but when there is no longuer anything to take
away.
-- Antoine de St Exupery.
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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
-- Mark Twain
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Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex, intelligent
behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple, stupid
behavior.
-- Dee Hock, Birth of the Chaordic Age
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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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Give up control. You never really had it anyway.
-- How to fail: 25 secrets learned through failure
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It's no trick for talented people to be interesting, but it's a gift to
be interested. We want an organization filled with interested people.
-- Randy S. Nelson (dean of Pixar University)
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Remember that you are humans in the first place and only after that
programmers.
-- Alexandru Vancea
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Give up control. You never really had it anyway.
-- How to fail: 25 secrets learned through failure
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I feel it is everybodies obligation to reach for the best in themselves
and use that for the interest of mankind.
-- Corneluis (comment on 'Are you going to change the world? (Really?)')
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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are always cocksure and
the intelligent are always filled with doubt.
-- Bertrand Russell
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A witty saying proves nothing
-- Voltaire
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Work as intensely as you play and play as intensely as you work.
-- Eric S. Raymond, How To Be A Hacker
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The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be
regarded as a criminal offense.
-- E.W. Dijkstra
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Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
-- Albert Einstein
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I feel it is everybodies obligation to reach for the best in themselves
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-- Corneluis (comment on 'Are you going to change the world? (Really?)')
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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein
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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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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which
matter least.
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)
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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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Only make new mistakes.
-- Phil Dourado
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The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones.
They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard:
conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving
ability.
-- Randall E. Stross
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from
religious conviction.
-- Blaise Pascal (attributed)
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A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is
not worth knowing.
-- Alan Perlis
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That is the inevitable human response. We’re reluctant to believe that
great discoveries are in the air. We want to believe that great
discoveries are in our heads—and to each party in the multiple the
presence of the other party is invariably cause for suspicion.
-- Malcolm Gladwell, Who says big ideas are rare?
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Remember that you are humans in the first place and only after that
programmers.
-- Alexandru Vancea
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No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to
excel in it.
-- Alberti
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Give up control. You never really had it anyway.
-- How to fail: 25 secrets learned through failure
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Lisp programmers know the value of everything but the cost of nothing.
-- Alan J. Perlis
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in
God.
-- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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You can have premature generalization as well as premature optimization.
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You have to write for your audience. I would never write (1..5).map
&'*2' in Java when I could write
ListFactoryFactory.getListFactoryFromResource(
new ResourceName('com.javax.magnitudes.integers').
setLowerBound(1).setUpperBound(5).setStep(1).applyFunctor(
new Functor () { public void eval (x) { return x * 2; } }))
I'm simplifying, of course, I've left out the security and logging
wrappers.
-- Reginald Braithwait
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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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The Work Begins Anew, The Hope Rises Again, And The Dream Lives On.
-- Ted Kennedy
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Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder.
Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.
-- Erik Naggum
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We now come to the decisive step of mathematical abstraction: we forget
about what the symbols stand for. ...[The mathematician] need not be
idle; there are many operations which he may carry out with these
symbols, without ever having to look at the things they stand for.
-- Hermann Weyl, The Mathematical Way of Thinking
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If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be
the process of putting them in.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can
become great.
-- Mark Twain
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Rules of Optimization:
Rule 1: Don’t do it.
Rule 2 (for experts only): Don’t do it yet.
-- M.A. Jackson
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If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be
the process of putting them in.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra
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It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible
to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with
such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.
-- John Von Neumann, circa 1949
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It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.
-- Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper
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