Erik Naggum Quotes

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• Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.
• Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable … I am not one of those people. If I…
• Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that makes those who…
• Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. … Ask him why he thinks he should…
• Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express complex…
• C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to memory objects into…
• Life is too long to be good at C++ – if you had spent all that time to become good at it, you would essentially…
• The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further…
• Languages shape the way we think, or don't.
• Life is hard, and then you die.
• If you are concerned about netiquette, you are either concerned about your own and follow good netiquette, or you are concerned about others and violate…
• Suppose we blasted all politicians into space. Would the SETI project find even one of them?
• Like many older fans of Free Software and Open Source, I have discovered that it is really only free in the sense that the time…
• Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm.
• I have a cat, so I know that when she digs her very sharp claws into my chest or stomach it's really a sign of…
• If you want to know why Lisp doesn't win around you, find a mirror.
• It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever…
• Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.
• We have no mom-and-pop oil rigs in Norway.

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