Quotes
Last updated:A selection of quotes that I am fond of.
Engineers build things; scientists describe reality; philosophers get lost in broad daylight.
Richard P. Gabriel
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery
Because people don't understand what computing is about, they think they have it in the Phone, and that illusion is as bad as the illusion that 'Guitar Hero' is the same as a real guitar.
Alan Kay
The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else.
Frederic Bastiat
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson
JavaScript has all but eroded my psyche to a smooth tapioca pudding like consistency.
Reality is what refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
Philip K. Dick
Life is too short to run proprietary software.
Bdale Garbee
This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.
Linus Torvalds