When’s the last time you used duct tape on a duct?
Don’t wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
Well, coffee is my drug of choice, generally, with a little bit of Pepsi here and there, if I need more sugar. But yeah, if I could do intravenous coffee, I would. But I guess that’s pretty standard.
The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
It’s there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
It won’t be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
I procrastinate, but mostly because there’s always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I’ll throw things in there and let them stew around. It’s sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
We are so Post-Modern that we don’t realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
Somebody out there is going to do something that’s far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.
There’s a saying in the software design industry: “Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.”
This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I’ll try my best to fake it.
Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?
Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method.
I just hope I’m never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell’s Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.