The land free, the land free for all, land without overseers and without masters.
There is very little point in trying to urge the world to mend its ways as long as that world is still convinced that its ways are perfectly adequate.
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.
Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved forward.
You mean a bad heel?" I said. "Couldn't I just, like, wear something besides sandals? No offense. " -Percy
I busked from the age of 13 until I was 18.
We go in with eyes wide open and recognize there will be a lot of hard work involved. But we anticipate having success. We feel like we have assembled a great group of people. If we were going to do it any other way, we would have made an announcement a long time ago. We were very diligent.
I held out my hand and George Mitchell said, "Like in everything else, you lead and I'll follow. " And the crowd broke up, and we did a twirl or two around the dance floor. And that's like him, you know, he was there for his members, he campaigned for us, he believed in us, and he was really a good sport as well.