Quotes on programming

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

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Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiotproof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.

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We see a lot of feature-driven product design in which the cost of features is not properly accounted. Features can have a negative value to customers because they make the products more difficult to understand and use. We are finding that people like products that just work. It turns out that designs that just work are much harder to produce that designs that assemble long lists of features.

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Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.

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He has reverted, in other words, back into a pure balls-to-the-wall nerdism rivaled only by his early game-coding days back in Seattle. The sheer depth and involution of the current nerdism binge would be hard to convey to anyone. Intellectually, he is juggling half a dozen lit torches, Ming vases, live puppies, and running chainsaws. In this frame of mind he cannot bring himself to give a shit about the fact that this incredibly powerful billionaire has gone to a lot of trouble to come and F2F with him.

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When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.

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Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place, So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

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All architecture is design but not all design is architecture. Architecture represents the significant design decisions that shape a system, where significant is measured by cost of change.

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