The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does.
Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.
There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.
Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.
Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination
Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.
Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.
A man will never change his mind if he have no mind to change.
It was a nasty look. It made me feel as if I were something the dog had brought in and intended to bury later on, when he had time.
In whatever form it takes, life sings because it has a song. The meaning is in the lyrics.
The policy that received more attention particularly in the past decade and a half or so has been the US cocaine policy, the differential treatment of crack versus powder cocaine and question is how my research impacted my view on policy. Clearly that policy is not based on the weight of the scientific evidence. That is when the policy was implemented, the concern about crack cocaine was so great that something had to be done and congress acted in the only way they knew how, they passed policy and that's what a responsible society should do.