Frame is a good enough piece of software that there are actually rewards to taking an intelligent and formal approach to your problem. But if you want to be stupid, you can think of Frame as a version of Microsoft… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
Progress in computer science is made with the distribution of revolutionary software systems and the publication of revolutionary books. We don't need a fancy information system to alert us to these grand events; they will hit us in the face. Another good excuse for ignoring the literature is that, since everyone has strong beliefs about fundamentals but can't support those… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share
Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
Even within traditional universities there has always been debate about whether it wouldn't be better to focus on only one course at a time. — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
The book the Ziff folks sent me as an example of their art was 'Late Night VRML 2.0 with Java,' 700 pages + CD-ROM,… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
Start by putting yourself in your users' shoes. Why are they coming to your site? If you look at most Web sites, you'd presume… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
Remember that in 1993 a company with a bad Web site needed an engineer. Today, a company with a bad Web site needs a psychiatrist. — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
“Programmers are isolated. They sit in their cubicle; they don't think about the larger picture. To my mind, a programmer is not an engineer, because an engineer is somebody who starts with a social problem that an organization or a society has and says, "OK, here's this problem that we have- how can we solve it?" The engineer comes up… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share
Pilots enjoy the fun and challenge of handling the fancy machine. — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
“Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.” — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
I don't myself believe in astrology. However, I think that's because I'm a Libra and Libras are always skeptical. — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
