So - what are the most important problems in software engineering? I’d
answer “dealing with complexity”.
-- Mark Chu-Carroll
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Since programmers create programs out of nothing, imagination is our
only limitation. Thus, in the world of programming, the hero is the one
who has great vision. Paul Graham is one of our contemporary heroes. He
has the ability to embrace the vision, and to express it plainly. His
works are my favorites, especially the ones describing language design.
He explains secrets of programming, languages, and human nature that can
only be learned from the hacker experience. This book shows you his
great vision, and tells you the truth about the nature of hacking.
-- Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, creator of Ruby
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:nunmap can also be used outside of a monastery.
-- Vim user manual
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J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de
l'indifférence.
-- Anatole France
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The problem is that Microsoft just has no taste. And I don't mean that
in a small way, I mean that in a big way.
-- Steve Jobs
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Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
-- George Burns
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Courage is grace under pressure.
-- Ernest Hemingway
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C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce.
-- Scott McKay
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Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it.
-- Donald Knuth
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Write it properly first. It's easier to make a correct program fast,
than to make a fast program correct.
-- http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/
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Lisp programmers know the value of everything but the cost of nothing.
-- Alan J. Perlis
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Opportunities that present themselves to you are the consequence -- at
least partially -- of being in the right place at the right time. They
tend to present themselves when you're not expecting it -- and often
when you are engaged in other activities that would seem to preclude you
from pursuing them. And they come and go quickly -- if you don't jump
all over an opportunity, someone else generally will and it will vanish.
-- Marc Andreessen (http://blog.pmarca.com/)
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Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to
smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.
-- Mary Ellen Kelly
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Courage is grace under pressure.
-- Ernest Hemingway
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XML wasn't designed to be edited by humans on a regular basis.
-- Guido van Rossum
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All creativity is an extended form of a joke.
-- Alan Kay
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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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Why teach drawing to accountants? Because drawing class doesn't just
teach people to draw. It teaches them to be more observant. There's no
company on earth that wouldn't benefit from having people become more
observant.
-- Randy S. Nelson (dean of Pixar University)
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Good ideas are out there for anyone with the wit and the will to find
them.
-- Malcolm Gladwell, Who says big ideas are rare?
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
-- Bill Gates, 1981
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A hacker on a roll may be able to produce–in a period of a few
months–something that a small development group (say, 7-8 people) would
have a hard time getting together over a year. IBM used to report that
certain programmers might be as much as 100 times as productive as other
workers, or more.
-- Peter Seebach
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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
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Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir
de la faire plus courte. (I have made this letter so long only because I
did not have the leisure to make it shorter.)
-- Blaise Pascal (Lettres Provinciales)
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Humans aren't rational -- they rationalize. And I don't just mean "some
of them" or "other people". I'm talking about everyone. We have a "logic
engine" in our brains, but for the most part, it's not the one in the
driver's seat -- instead it operates after the fact, generating
rationalizations and excuses for our behavior.
-- Paul Buchheit
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An expert is, according to my working definition "someone who doesn't
need to look up answers to easy questions".
-- Eric Lippert.
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-- Gbi de fer
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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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Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it)
in programming.
-- Donald Knuth
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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.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
-- Cicero
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Normality is the route to nowhere.
-- Ridderstrale & Nordstorm, Funky Business
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Show, don't tell.
-- unknown
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More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without
necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including
blind stupidity.
-- W.A. Wulf
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