“When they realize, “Oh, my program's getting gigantic,” what are they going to do? They're not going to know where to start. That's my first instinct because I'm a caveman. Really that probably doesn't even matter because you'll just throw… — Peter Seibel Copy Share Image
“Ironically, as a result of his move to the country, Cosell- one of the fathers of the Internet-now has only dial-up access from his… — Peter Seibel Copy Share Image
“Things have gotten faster but the software has gotten slower and buggier in the meantime.” — Peter Seibel Copy Share Image
“Fitzpatrick: Back when I was doing Perl-even for people that knew Perl really well-I would recommend MJD's Higher-Order Per!. The book is really fun… — Peter Seibel Copy Share Image
“so we'll focus on the Windows side of things and then we'll port it later.” Which is what many other failed companies have done.… — Peter Seibel Copy Share Image
“one thing that separates good programmers from bad programmers is that good programmers are more facile at jumping between layers of abstraction—they can keep… — Peter Seibel Copy Share Image
“And he was like, “No, no, I really think we ought to do that.” And I was like, “We don't have time!” So he… — Peter Seibel Copy Share Image
“Zawinski: Sometimes. I end up doing all the sysadmin crap, which I can't stand-I've never liked it. I enjoy working on XScreenSaver because in… — Peter Seibel Copy Share Image
“Moore's law doesn't apply to batteries. So how much time we're wasting in interpreting stuff really matters there. The cycles count.” — Peter Seibel Copy Share Image
“When they realize, “Oh, my program's getting gigantic,” what are they going to do? They're not going to know where to start. That's my… — Peter Seibel Copy Share Image
“I always wish people would comment more, though the thing that makes me cringe is when the comment is the name of the function… — Peter Seibel Copy Share Image
“The experience of writing something in Java and then trying to figure out—I myself have trouble installing Java on my computer—it's horrible.” — Peter Seibel Copy Share Image
“nobody seemed to think programming is a solved problem: most are still looking for a better way to write software, whether by finding ways… — Peter Seibel Copy Share Image
