January 2012
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September 2011
1 post
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on...
– Douglas Adams (as quoted by Richard Dawkins in his Eulogy for Douglas Adams)
October 2010
1 post
if you shipped your product and you’re not ashamed of it, you’ve...
– Reid Hoffman
June 2010
4 posts
17. Omit needless words
16. Use definitive, specific, concrete language
Gauss’s paper had remained a secret for so long because it was protected...
– Dasgupta, Papadimitriou, Vazirani, “Algorithms”
Why program by hand in five days what you can spend five years of your life...
– The Definitive ANTLR Reference — Building Domain-Specific Languages
by Terence Parr
May 2010
1 post
You know you have one when the crash of a computer you’ve never heard of stops...
– Leslie Lamport
February 2010
2 posts
We must be very careful when we give advice to younger people: sometimes they...
– Edsger W. Dijkstra, 1972 Turing Award Lecture
The major cause [of the software crisis] is that the machines have become...
– Edsger W. Dijkstra
April 2009
1 post
Клиент:
– Я испытываю глубочайшую тоску.
Психотерапевт:
– Вы испытываете...
– http://psf.grsu.by/Guestbook/anekdot.htm
March 2009
1 post
I’m French. Why do you think I have this outrageous accent, you silly...
– Monty Python and The Holy Grail