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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. (C. S. Lewis)
I need Christ, not something that resembles Him. View quote
C. S. Lewis
Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done. View quote
C. S. Lewis
A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you. View quote
C. S. Lewis
Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
What the English call "comfortable” is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham. View quote
Larry Wall
If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you. View quote
Larry Wall
The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right. View quote
Larry Wall
Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on. (Larry Wall)
Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something. View quote
Larry Wall
There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit. View quote
Larry Wall
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all... View quote
Larry Wall
Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great deal of enjoyment writing device drivers for Linux. I could also be having a good time writing a database manager or something because there are always interesting problems. View quote
John D. Carmack
Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway. View quote
Brian Kernighan
But in all honesty, I would suggest that people who want a modern "free" OS look around for a microkernel-based, portable OS, like maybe GNU or something like that. View quote
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
It used to be that, when something strange happened, we'd hear on the news "Police believe this is the act of an isolated nut." On the internet there are no isolated nuts; whatever kind of nut you are, you can find fifty nuts in the world exactly like you. View quote
Bruce Perens
The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to. View quote
Alan Kay
The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs. View quote
Alan Kay
The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully. (Alan Kay)
One of my guiding principles is don't do anything that other people are doing. Always do something a little different if you can. The concept is that if you do it a little differently there is a greater potential for reward than if you the same thing that other people are doing. I think that this kind of goal for one's work, having obviously the maximum risk, would have the maximum reward no matter what the field may be. View quote
Seymour Cray
People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise. View quote
Subhash Kak
These people also tended to pretend to care deeply about the blind and otherwise disabled. I am sympathetic to the needs of those users, but I can't help but think that those who claimed to speak for the blind were being more than a little disingenuous, just like those Hemp people who present their arguments in terms of their deep and abiding care for the textile industry, when their real motives are ... something else entirely. View quote
Jamie Zawinski
If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy. View quote
Jamie Zawinski