All experience has taught us that solving a complex problem uncovers hidden assumptions and ever more knowledge, trade-offs that we didn’t anticipate but which can make the difference between meeting a deadline and going into research mode for a year, etc.

— Erik Naggum

Erik Naggum Quotes

Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.

— Erik Naggum

I have long since given up dealing with people who hold idiotic opinions as if they had arrived at them through thinking about them.

— Erik Naggum

Very clever implementation techniques are required to implement this insanity correctly and usefully, not to mention that code written with this feature used and abused east and west is exceptionally exciting to debug.

— Erik Naggum

Would you buy a book proudly stating on the cover that its reader is a dummy? Or would you think “of course it’s ironic”?

— Erik Naggum

Norway did not even have a revolution at the time the rest of Europe was busy figuring out human rights and stuff, because we were busy fighting over how to spell it.

— Erik Naggum

Once we were Programmers. Maybe our last best hope is a movie.

— Erik Naggum

In Norway, we have a community of people who prefer to use a version of Norwegian that looks very much like lutefisk: Dug up remains from the garbage heap of history and dressed up to look like a tradition.

— Erik Naggum

Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some other field.

— Erik Naggum

Optimization is generally detrimental to future success, but it is the only way to accomplish present success in competition with others who are equally interested in short-term results.

— Erik Naggum

Competition

I’m bothered by the fact that stupid people don’t spontaneously combust, which they should.

— Erik Naggum

Have you considered the option of getting the joke? If not, try it now and redeem your soul.

— Erik Naggum

Enlightenment is probably antithetical to impatience.

— Erik Naggum

C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembly-language design it is based on.

— Erik Naggum

What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix.

— Erik Naggum

Let’s just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it.

— Erik Naggum

Contrary to the foolish notion that syntax is immaterial, people optimize the way they express themselves, and so express themselves differently with different syntaxes.

— Erik Naggum

Elegance is necessarily unnatural, only achieveable at great expense. If you just do something, it won’t be elegant, but if you do it and then see what might be more elegant, and do it again, you might, after an unknown number of iterations, get something that is very elegant.

— Erik Naggum

All experience has taught us that solving a complex problem uncovers hidden assumptions and ever more knowledge, trade-offs that we didn’t anticipate but which can make the difference between meeting a deadline and going into research mode for a year, etc.

— Erik Naggum

The only important property of evils of the past is that they not be repeated in the future, in any way, shape, or form.

— Erik Naggum

XML is a giant step in no direction at all.

— Erik Naggum

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