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RE: Bye Steem!
I'm always happy to trade performance for readability as long as the
former isn't already scarce.
-- Crayz (Commentor on blog.raganwald.com)
I'm always happy to trade performance for readability as long as the
former isn't already scarce.
-- Crayz (Commentor on blog.raganwald.com)
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.
Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.
-- Ralph Johnson
Acknowledging the negative doesn't mean sniveling [whining, complaining]; it
means facing the truth and then moving on.
-- George Leonard, Mastery.
All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of
indirection.
-- Butler Lampson
The best is the enemy of the good.
-- Voltaire
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a
violent psychopath who knows where you live.
-- Martin Golding
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a
violent psychopath who knows where you live.
-- Martin Golding
Mistakes were made.
-- Ronald Reagan
Philosophy: the finding of bad reasons for what one believes by
instinct.
-- Brave New World (paraphrased)
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
-- Brian Kernigan
Lisp programmers know the value of everything but the cost of nothing.
-- Alan J. Perlis
Simplicity takes effort-- genius, even.
-- Paul Graham
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
Be the change you want to see in the world.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be
regarded as a criminal offense.
-- E.W. Dijkstra
J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de
l'indifférence.
-- Anatole France
No problem should ever have to be solved twice.
-- Eric S. Raymond, How to become a hacker
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from
him.
-- Galileo Galilei
My dream is that people adopt it on its own merits. We're not trying to
bend Ruby on Rails to fit the enterprise, we're encouraging enterprises
to bend to Ruby on Rails. Come if you like it, stay away if you don't.
We're not going head over heels to accommodate the enterprise or to lure
them away from Java. That's how you end up with Java, if you start
bending to special interest groups.
-- David Heinemeier Hansson (Ruby On Rails' creator)
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not so
sure about the former.
-- Albert Einstein
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
Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM, which is more than any
application will ever need.
-- Microsoft, on the development of Windows NT, 1992
Je crois au flooding.
-- Karim BAINA (en parlant du dailogue avec les administrations)
Simple things should be simple. Complex things should be possible.
-- Alan Kay
It is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally
vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
-- Edsger Dijkstra
Only make new mistakes.
-- Phil Dourado
Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.
After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.
-- Ancient Eastern adage
A no uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a yes merely
uttered to please or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
-- Mahatma Gandhi