Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
Life is too long to be good at C++ – if you had spent all that time to become good at it,… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively… — Erik Naggum Ability Copy Share Image
Norway did not even have a revolution at the time the rest of Europe was busy figuring out human rights and stuff,… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Contrary to the foolish notion that syntax is immaterial, people optimize the way they express themselves, and so express themselves differently with… — Erik Naggum 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
I believe C++ instills fear in programmers, fear that the interaction of some details causes unpredictable results. Its unmanageable complexity has spawned… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
If you are concerned about netiquette, you are either concerned about your own and follow good netiquette, or you are concerned about… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
The Internet will not become a money machine until the banking industry figures out how to transfer money for free so you… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
From the Latin word "imponere", base of the obsolete English "impone" and translated as "impress" in modern English, Nordic hackers have coined… — Erik Naggum Bystanders Copy Share Image
Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't… — Erik Naggum Complex problems Copy Share Image
Ignoring for a moment the power of the American Medical Association, we still wouldn't see a huge amount of books on neurosurgery… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable … I am not one of those… — Erik Naggum Animal Copy Share Image
The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so… — Erik Naggum Existence Copy Share Image
Structure is nothing if it is all you got. Skeletons spook people if they try to walk around on their own. I… — Erik Naggum Architecture Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, nigh the whole world is now duped into thinking that silly fill-in forms on web pages is the way to do… — Erik Naggum Duped Copy Share Image
Optimization is generally detrimental to future success, but it is the only way to accomplish present success in competition with others who… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
I have argued that a religion or a philosophy cannot speak about facts of the world - if it does, it is… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
I have long since given up dealing with people who hold idiotic opinions as if they had arrived at them through thinking… — Erik Naggum Dealing with people Copy Share Image
C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Just getting something to work usually means writing reams of code fast, like a Stephen King novel, but making it maintainable and… — Erik Naggum Art Copy Share Image
That's why the smartest companies use Common Lisp, but lie about it so all their competitors think Lisp is slow and C++… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or… — Erik Naggum Behavior Copy Share Image
Very clever implementation techniques are required to implement this insanity correctly and usefully, not to mention that code written with this feature… — Erik Naggum Clever Copy Share Image
Like many older fans of Free Software and Open Source, I have discovered that it is really only free in the sense… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
All experience has taught us that solving a complex problem uncovers hidden assumptions and ever more knowledge, trade-offs that we didn't anticipate… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
If car manufacturers made cars according to spec the same way software vendors make software according to spec, all five wheels would… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
I may be biased, but I tend to find a much lower tendency among female programmers to be dishonest about their skills,… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
What people "want" is a function of what they learn is available. If you wish to sell something, you'd better understand that… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
They don't make poles long enough for me want to touch Microsoft products, and I don't want any mass-marketed game-playing device or… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
