Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
–Rich Cook
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Quote of the day — programming
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Brother, can you spare a controversy?
“Change is one thing, progress is another. ‘Change’ is scientific, ‘progress’ is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.” ~ Bertrand Russell
If still alive, I wonder what Bertrand Russell would make of Rick Perry and a host of others, mostly conservative Republicans, who find climate change dubitable indeed. Then again, Perry and company don’t have much truck with science. Progress as they define it is not a matter of controversy. Change, however, is. And if they have to change the way they think or act or the truck they drive, well, that’s the most controversial of all.
Mark Twain quote on writing
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And somehow, if you don’t know who Mark Twain is, here’s where you can get a clue: Mark Twain.
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Writing quote for the day
“One of the greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read.” —John Kenneth Galbraith
Click on John Kenneth Galbraith to learn a little more about him.
Liberty
Liberty means responsibility; that is why most men dread it. –George Bernard Shaw
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