Its a shame that the students of our generation grew up with windows and mice because that tainted our mindset not to think in terms of powerful tools. Some of us are just so tainted that we will never recover. -- Jeffrey Mark Siskind in comp.lang.lisp
Ce n’est que par les beaux sentiments qu’on parvient à la fortune ! -- Charles Baudelaire, Conseils aux jeunes littérateurs.
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. -- Robert Sewell
Since programmers create programs out of nothing, imagination is our only limitation. Thus, in the world of programming, the hero is the one who has great vision. Paul Graham is one of our contemporary heroes. He has the ability to embrace the vision, and to express it plainly. His works are my favorites, especially the ones describing language design. He explains secrets of programming, languages, and human nature that can only be learned from the hacker experience. This book shows you his great vision, and tells you the truth about the nature of hacking. -- Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, creator of Ruby
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS. -- Alan Kay
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -- Hans Hofmann
To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like. ~Mike Gafka
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
Opportunities don’t happen, you create them. ~Chris Grosser