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@qerub
The point of public relations slogans like 'Support our troops' is that they don't mean anything… That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. Its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something: Do you support our policy? That's the one you're not allowed to talk about.
Noam Chomsky
If a programmer is indispensable, get rid of him as quickly as possible.
Gerald Weinberg in The Psychology of Computer Programming
Hifi finds a way.
Mathias
The general point I was making is we should be wary of adopting a "better" technology without understanding the underlying problem that technology purports to solve. Doing so inevitably leads to solutions with a lot of incidental complexity that fail to even solve the underlying problems fully. For solutions like this, you'll often see advocates unable to really give a formal argument for why that solution is superior, instead falling back on pointing to particular examples, harping on how convenient certain things are, and gushing about various intangibles like how "beautiful" it is. There's nothing wrong with such advocacy, but if you cannot formalize your argument that one solution is better than another, chances are you do not fully understand the underlying problem and are therefore ignorant of whether some more direct, simpler solution exists.
Paul Chiusano
CSS, a language for specifying visual appearance on the web, is … so complex that it has never been implemented correctly; yet, successive versions specify even more complexity. At the same time, it is so underpowered that many elementary graphic designs are impossible or prohibitively difficult, and context-sensitivity (or anything computational) must be addressed externally. Most CSS lore is dedicated to describing the tangles of brittle hacks needed to circumvent incompatibilities or approximate a desired appearance.
Bret Victor
Kod är antingen composable eller compostable. I det senare fallet är den redo att bara slängas så att man kan återanvända beståndsdelselektronerna till något nytt från scratch.
Mathias
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay
You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes.
Theo de Raadt (source)
The Web was done by amateurs.
Alan Kay (interview)
The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.
Jeff Hammerbacher
Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
You can’t see how these things work and how they interact until you’ve done it some. You don’t know what programming practices are dangerous until you’ve seen which ones make your programs take weeks to debug and then seen a good programmer fix it in five minutes. I don’t think you can get that from classes. Classes can give you a lot of stuff, but in the end programming is a craft you have to perfect by plying it.
Bernie Cosell (in Coders at Work)
So I got this reputation—I fixed these mysterious bugs that nobody else could fix. Fortunately, they never asked me what the bug was. Because the truth of the matter is if they’d have asked, “How did you fix the bug?” my answer would have been, “I couldn’t understand the code well enough to figure out what it was doing, so I rewrote it.”
Bernie Cosell (in Coders at Work)
It might be that I’m too much of a curmudgeon to understand layers.
Ken Thompson (in Coders at Work)
Every now and then I feel a temptation to design a programming language but then I just lie down until it goes away.
L Peter Deutsch (in Coders at Work)
Well, part of the reason that I don’t call myself a computer scientist any more is that I’ve seen software practice over a period of just about 50 years and it basically hasn’t improved tremendously in about the last 30 years.
L Peter Deutsch (in Coders at Work)
There has to [be] something a little wrong with you for you to be a really good programmer. Maybe “wrong with you” is a little too strong, but the qualities that make somebody a well-functioning human being and the qualities that make somebody a really good programmer—they overlap but they don’t overlap a whole heck of a lot. And I’m speaking as someone who was a very good programmer.
L Peter Deutsch (in Coders at Work)