Quote #25
"The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and
Hubris."
-- Larry Wall in den Perl5-Manpages
"The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and
Hubris."
-- Larry Wall in den Perl5-Manpages
Related:
- Quote #207
Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed
in.
Larry Wall... - Quote #424
"Usenet is essentially Letters to the Editor without the editor.
Editors don't appreciate this, for some reason."... - Quote #545
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand,
the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs... - There are two cardinal sins from which all the others spring:
impatience and laziness. -- Franz... - Quote #356
"Larry Wall should be shot. Along with Bill Joy and Eric Allman."
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Daniel Finster, comp.lang.lisp "Why, just because... - Quote #431
"I don't like your I-can-use-anything-as-an-adjective attitude."
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Larry Wall [Used in a .sig of Paul... - I like Barney,
stuffed and mounted on the wall in my den... - Quote #206
Perl IS a psychological study.
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Larry Wall [Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang... - Quote #575
The argument against using an operator for other than its primary purpose
strikes me the same as the old argument that you shouldn't have sex for
other than procreational purposes.
Sometimes side effects are more enjoyable than the...
From the same category:
- Quote #134
"Now you can install your new kernel and try it out."
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SunOS 4.1.3,... - Quote #409
VAXORCIST: Everything looks okay to me.
SYSMGR: Maybe it's hibernating. VAXORCIST: Unlikely... - Quote #337
.sigs are the bumper stickers of the
information superhighway... - Quote #384
There's one born again every minute ;
) -- gauntlet@bga.com... - Quote #401
In an essay about programming, Ellen Ullman tells a great anecdote about a
programmer who was so socially inept that they could only communicate with
him via email,
even they...
