Would you buy a book proudly stating on the cover that its reader is a dummy? Or would you think "of course… — Erik Naggum Book Copy Share Image
The aspects you are willing to ignore are more important than the aspects you are willing to accept. — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Suppose we blasted all politicians into space. Would the SETI project find even one of them? — Erik Naggum Inspirational Copy Share Image
The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary. — Erik Naggum Delight Copy Share Image
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I regret that this isn't fatal. — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
I'm bothered by the fact that stupid people don't spontaneously combust, which they should. — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
A word says more than a thousand images. Exercises for the visually inclined: illustrate "appreciation", "humor", "software", "education", "inalienable rights", "elegance", "fact". — Erik Naggum Appreciation Copy Share Image
Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
The Web provided me with a much needed realization that information cannot be fully separated from its presentation, and showed me something… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
I guess there are some things that are so gross you just have to forget, or it'll destroy something within you. Perl… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Gotos aren't damnable to begin with. If you aren't smart enough to distinguish what's bad about some gotos from all gotos, goto… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
'Code sharing' is an economic surplus phenomenon. It works only when none of the people involved in it are in any form… — Erik Naggum Code Copy Share Image
Part of any serious QA is removing Perl code the same way you go over a dilapidated building you inherit to remove… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
A system needs to be alive and workable even when other people than the first enthusiasts start using it. Reinvention and revolution… — Erik Naggum Alive Copy Share Image
The novice-friendly software is more like a misbehaving dog: it shits on the floor, it destroys things, and stinks - the novice-friendly… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
People search for the meaning of life, but this is the easy question: we are born into a world that presents us… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the only way to learn something really well is to revert to the state of mind of a novice and reawaken… — Erik Naggum Conclusion Copy Share Image
You become a serious programmer by going through a stage where you are fully aware of the degree to which you know… — Erik Naggum Antithesis Copy Share Image
Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. … Ask him why he… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
The fundamental deficiency in HTML is that it reduces hypertext and the intertwinedness of human communication to a question of how it… — Erik Naggum Browsers Copy Share Image
When all actions are used for feedback, the consequence of making mistakes will be a corrective and appropriate response, because everything everybody… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that large print, thick and heavy paper, and wide margins and oversize leading is indicative of the… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Historically, labor unions arose when people had gotten a taste of a different lifestyle and were willing to pay a lot more… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
If, however, one factor is too successful, it will continue to be the winning factor regardless of the variation in the other… — Erik Naggum Change Copy Share Image
Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm. — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some other field. — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer. — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
The only important property of evils of the past is that they not be repeated in the future, in any way, shape,… — Erik Naggum Evil Copy Share Image
Let's just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it. — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
