January 2012
1 post
“Teaism: When tea is more than a drink and the tea ceremony is understood and...”
– The Book of Tea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
December 2011
4 posts
“Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre
“In fact, next to bombing, rent control seems in many cases to be the most...”
– Assar Lindbeck
“Common sense is not so common.”
– Voltaire
“I sometimes run a very old version of The Sims to optimize living conditions for...”
– Amber Case
November 2011
2 posts
“People keep asking me to join the LinkedIn network, but I’m already part of a...”
– Gary McGraw
“It’s difficult to be rigorous about whether a machine really...”
– John McCarthy
October 2011
2 posts
“I have no issue with those who do something useful, produce value, and make 100...”
– Giulio Prisco
“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to...”
– Elizabeth Stone
September 2011
1 post
“The last good thing written in C was Schubert’s Ninth Symphony.”
– Haskell Weekly News
August 2011
2 posts
“Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
“Learning is brain damage. I’ve spent the last 18 to 20 years unlearning...”
– Gilad Bracha
July 2011
3 posts
“Unix and C are the ultimate computer viruses.”
– Richard P. Gabriel in The Rise of Worse is Better
“[Rich] Hickey has dubbed his previously mentioned tendency to spend more time...”
– Code Quarterly: Rich Hickey Q&A
“Det finns mycket som tyder på att just matlagning blivit ett av vår tids...”
– Björn Wiman (DN:s kulturchef) i en krönika
May 2011
6 posts
“A Modernist has to decide whether this is true OR that is true. The Modernist...”
– Larry Wall
“We do no market research. We don’t hire consultants. The only consultants I’ve...”
– Steve Jobs
“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines...”
– Abelson & Sussman (in SICP)
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people that you are,...”
– Margaret Thatcher
“Java would be Fundamentalist Christianity—it’s theoretically based
on C,...”
– “If programming languages were religions…”
by amz
“Lisp would be Zen Buddhism—there is no syntax, there is no
centralization of...”
– “If programming languages were religions…”
by amz
April 2011
9 posts
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...”
– Ira Glass (via Kottke)
“This kind of “I broke things, so now I will jiggle things randomly
until...”
– Linus Torvalds (source)
“A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he...”
– Leon Festinger (source)
“A bad day writing code in Scheme is better than a good day writing code in C.”
– David Stigant (source)
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool that I’ve ever...”
– Steve Jobs (source)
“Lisp is so powerful that problems which are technical issues in other...”
– Rudolf Winestock (in The Lisp Curse)
“Will write code that writes code that writes code that writes code for money.”
– Anonymous on on comp.lang.lisp
“Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.”
– Robert Browning
“No decent human being would allow an animal to suffer without putting it out of...”
– Isaac Asimov
March 2011
1 post
“As I’ve gained more experience with Perl it strikes me that it resembles Lisp in...”
– Tim Moore (on comp.lang.lisp)
February 2011
2 posts
“If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover,...”
– pdftk
“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft...”
– Bill Gates (via Johan)
January 2011
3 posts
“Only boring people are bored.”
– Betty Draper in Mad Men
“The faintest ink is better than the best memory.”
– Chinese proverb (via Mad Men)
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
– Douglas Adams (via Johan)
December 2010
8 posts
“I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of all...”
– Albert Einstein (via Trivium)
“When I started, the computer classes were part of the applied- math department....”
– Peter Norvig (in Coders at Work, p. 290)
“At SGI, the kernel, of course, was where the real programmers with chest hair...”
– Brendan Eich (in Coders at Work, p. 140-141)
“Yet there’s often a tension between small, elegant jewels and sprawling,...”
– Peter Seibel (in Coders at Work, p. 101)
“Observe that for the programmer, as for the chef, the urgency of
the patron may...”
– Fred Brooks (in The Mythical Man-Month)
“If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre
“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I...”
– Albert Camus
“I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as...”
– R. Feynman
November 2010
7 posts
“Lisp är min älskling och alla fula gubbar som säger att hon borde sminka sig får...”
– Johan Persson
“Saying that Java is good because it works on all platforms is like saying anal...”
– Unknown (via Johan)
“Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both...”
– Edward V Berard (via Johan)
“All interesting problems in computer science reduce to what’s in a name,...”
– Jim Coplien
“LISP has jokingly been described as “the most intelligent way to misuse a...”
– E.W. Dijkstra, The Humble Programmer (via Johan)
“The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world’s richest...”
– Dijkstra