Mark Twain
- Cats
Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
Linux Kernel Coding Style
- Tabs
Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters. There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4 (or even 2!) characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the value of PI to be 3.
Bill Gates
- Rich Neighbor
Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.
Joe Biden
- I'm going to go to bed
And look, nobody likes having celebrated international meetings if you don't know what you want at the meeting, if you don't have a gameplan. He may have a gameplan; he just hasn't shared it with me. But I tell you what, I don't know about you, but I'm going to go to bed.
C2 Wiki
- Lisp
Also, to add insult to injury, many people who make bizarre, disparaging statements about Lisp lack the background to understand that the exact features that they are extolling in their language of choice not only exist in Lisp, but originated with Lisp. Is it arrogant to point that out?
Donald Trump
- He Likes Rockets
After achieving success as an internet entrepreneur, he could've spent his fortune doing anything including yachting. Lots of things. He could do lots of things. But in 2002, he began pouring tens of millions of dollars of his own money into research and development for a new rocket. He's a little bit different than a lot of other people. He likes rockets.
Richard Stallman
- Piracy
Piracy is attacking ships and it's something very bad. But sharing with your neighbor is good, so I refuse to smear sharing just because a corporation is using a propaganda term like "piracy".
Christopher Hitchens
- False Security
Don't take refuge in the false security of consensus, and the feeling that whatever you think you're bound to be okay because you're in the safely moral majority.
Richard Stallman
- Divided and Helpless
Proprietary software keeps the users divided and helpless: divided, because they're forbidden to share it, and helpless, because they don't have the source code so they can't change it. They can't even study it to verify what it's really doing to them, and many proprietary programs have malicious features which spy on the user, restrict the user, even back doors to attack the user.
Terry A. Davis
When my bird was looking at my computer monitor, I thought "Woah, that bird has no idea what he's looking at." And yet, what does the bird do? Does he panic? No, he can't really panic. He just does the best he can.
Anonymous
If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell.
Albert Einstein
- Personal God
I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
zombo.com
- Welcome to ZomboCom
This is ZomboCom! And welcome to you, who have come to ZomboCom. Anything is possible at ZomboCom. You can do anything at ZomboCom. The infinite is possible at ZomboCom. The unattainable is unknown at ZomboCom.
Alan Kay
- Maxwell’s Equations of Software
Yes, that was the big revelation to me when I was in graduate school - when I finally understood that the half page of code on the bottom of page 13 of the Lisp 1.5 manual was Lisp in itself. These were "Maxwell's Equations of Software!" This is the whole world of programming in a few lines that I can put my hand over.
Richard Stallman
- Lisp
The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful language is. Once you learn Lisp you will see what is missing in most other languages.
Richard Stallman
- Pessimist
I am a pessimist by nature. Many people can only keep on fighting when they expect to win. I'm not like that. I always expect to lose. I fight anyway, and sometimes I win.
Harold Abelson and Gerald J. Sussman
In teaching our material we use a dialect of the programming language Lisp. We never formally teach the language, because we don't have to. We just use it, and students pick it up in a few days.
Harold Abelson and Gerald J. Sussman
We want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but rather that it is a novel formal medium for expressing ideas about methodology. Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
Terry A. Davis
- Bird Ideas
The bird is okay even though he doesn't understand the world. You're that bird looking at the monitor, and you're thinking to yourself, "I can figure this out." Maybe you have some bird ideas. Maybe that's the best you can do.
