Quote #2
It's impossible to foresee the consequences of being clever
-- Christopher Strachey
It's impossible to foresee the consequences of being clever
-- Christopher Strachey
Related:
- A human being is an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. -- Christopher Morley
- There is only one rule for being a good talker -- learn to listen. -- Christopher Morley
- It is possible by ingenuity and at the expense of clarity.
.. {to do almost anything in any language}. However, the fact that it is possible to push a pea up a mountain with your nose does not mean that this is a sensible way of getting it there.... - Quote #277
"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments--there are
consequences.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll... - Quote #618
It is impossible to retrofit quality, maintainability and reliability.
-- A M Davi... - Being too drunk to fish is like being too fat to bowl - impossible.
- KLUGE (kloodj) alt. KLUDGE [from the German kluge, clever] n.
1. A Rube Goldberg device in hard/software. 2. A clever programming trick used as a stopgap measure, and noted for being more efficient than clear.... - Quote #621
If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug
it?
-- Brian Kernigha... - Quote #472
If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution
inevitiable.
-- John F. Kennedy...

