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While I’ve always appreciated beautiful code, I share Jonathan’s concern about studying it too much. I think studying beauty in music and painting has led us to modern classical music and painting that the majority of us just don’t get. Beauty can be seen when it emerges, but isn’t something to strive for in isolation of a larger context. In the software world, the larger context would be the utility of the software to the end user. -- [A comment on a blog]
There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. -- C. A. R. Hoare
A tail call allows a function to return the result of another function without leaving an entry on the stack. Tail recursion is a specific case of tail calling. -- ASPN : Python Cookbook : Explicit Tail Call
Ce n'est que par les relations qu'on entretient entre nos différentes connaissances qu'elles nous restent accessibles. -- Shnuup, sur l'hypertexte (SELFHTML -> Introduction -> Definitions sur l'hypertexte)
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. -- Donald Knuth
Any sufficiently advanced technology is undistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke
We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie
Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart
Opportunities don’t happen, you create them. ~Chris Grosser