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RE: Bye Steem!
In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice. But in
practice, there is.
-- Albert Einstein
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
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops
until you stand up to speak in public.
-- Anonymous
Understanding why C++ is the way it is helps a programmer use it well. A deep
understanding of a tool is essential for an expert craftsman.
-- Bjarne Stroustrap
Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
-- Earl of Chesterfield
Let me try to get this straight: Lisp is a language for describing
algorithms. This was JohnMcCarthy's original purpose, anyway: to build
something more convenient than a Turing machine. Lisp is not about file,
socket or GUI programming - Lisp is about expressive power. (For
example, you can design multiple object systems for Lisp, in Lisp. Or
implement the now-fashionable AOP. Or do arbitrary transformations on
parsed source code.) If you don't value expressive power, Lisp ain't for
you. I, personally, would prefer Lisp to not become mainstream: this
would necessarily involve a dumbing down.
-- VladimirSlepnev
What I didn't understand was that the value of some new acquisition
wasn't the difference between its retail price and what I paid for it.
It was the value I derived from it. Stuff is an extremely illiquid
asset. Unless you have some plan for selling that valuable thing you got
so cheaply, what difference does it make what it's "worth?" The only way
you're ever going to extract any value from it is to use it. And if you
don't have any immediate use for it, you probably never will.
-- Paul Graham
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
Mistakes were made.
-- Ronald Reagan
Simplicity and pragmatism beat complexity and theory any day.
-- Dennis (blog comment)
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
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
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
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