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RE: Bye Steem!
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.
The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak.
-- J. B. Bossuet, Politics from Holy Writ, 1709
In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice. But in
practice, there is.
-- Albert Einstein
In God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me?
-- David (Psalm 56:4)
All creativity is an extended form of a joke.
-- Alan Kay
State is the root of all evil. In particular functions with side effects
should be avoided.
-- OO Sucks (bluetail.com)
Good coders code, great reuse.
-- http://www.catonmat.net
If something isn’t working, you need to look back and figure out what
got you excited in the first place.
-- David Gorman (ImThere.com)
Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM, which is more than any
application will ever need.
-- Microsoft, on the development of Windows NT, 1992
Heureux l'étudiant qui comme la Rivière peut suivre son cours sans
quitter son lit...
-- Sebastien, sur commentcamarche.net
A person won't retain proficiency at a task unless he or she has at one
time learned to perform that task very rapidly. Learning research
demonstrates that the skills of people who become accurate but not fast
deteriorate much sooner than the skills of people who become both
accurate and fast.
-- Philip Greenspun
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring
aircraft building progress by weight.
-- Bill Gates
Another feature about this guy is his low threshold of boredom. He'll
pick up on a task and work frantically at it, accomplishing wonders in a
short time and then get bored and drop it before its properly finished.
He'll do nothing but strum his guitar and lie around in bed for several
days after. Thats also part of the pattern too; periods of frenetic
activity followed by periods of melancholia, withdrawal and inactivity.
This is a bipolar personality.
-- The bipolar lisp programmer
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
-- Alan Perlis
Ecoute, crois en ton projet... Implique toi à fond... Trouve des aspects
innovants pour te distinguer des autres. Tu verras que tu te feras
remarquer très facilement...
-- Khaled Tangao
First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a
programming style. Then forget all that and just hack.
-- George Carrette
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it.
-- Donald Knuth
La tactique, c'est ce que vous faites quand il y a quelque chose à
faire; la stratégie, c'est ce que vous faites quand il n'y a rien à
faire.
-- Xavier Tartacover
Photography is painting with light.
-- Eric Hamilton
C’s great for what it’s great for.
-- Ben Hoyts (micropledge)
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the
results.
-- Winston Churchill
Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months
might as well have been written by someone else.
-- Eagleson’s Law
It's like a condom; I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and
not have it.
-- some chick in Alien vs. Predator, when asked why she
always carries a gun
The lesson of the story might appear to be that self-interested and
ambitious people in power are often the cause of wastefulness in
developing countries. But self-interested and ambitious people are in
positions of power, great and small, all over the world. In many places,
they are restrained by the law, the press, and democratic opposition.
Cameroon's tragedy is that there is nothing to hold self-interest in
check.
-- Tim Harford
Lisp programmers know the value of everything but the cost of nothing.
-- Alan J. Perlis
Argue with idiots, and you become an idiot.
If you compete with slaves you become a slave.
-- Paul Graham and Norbert Weiner, respectively
Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software
development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an
engineering discipline.
-- Bill Clinton
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
-- Brian Kernigan
Simplicity takes effort-- genius, even.
-- Paul Graham
A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average
lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000
times the price of an average software writer.
-- Bill Gates
Ce n’est que par les beaux sentiments qu’on parvient à la fortune !
-- Charles Baudelaire, Conseils aux jeunes littérateurs.
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy
to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
-- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programmi ng)
To follow the path:
look to the master,
follow the master,
walk with the master,
see through the master,
become the master.
-- Modern zen Poem