Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary. — Erik Naggum Delight 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Short of coming to their senses and abolishing the whole thing, we might expect that the rules for daylight saving time will… — Erik Naggum Darkness Copy Share Image
Elegance is necessarily unnatural, only achieveable at great expense. If you just do something, it won't be elegant, but if you do… — Erik Naggum Beauty Copy Share Image
I have actually programmed a fair bit in Perl, like I have C++ code published with my name on it. Other things… — Erik Naggum 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 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
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
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
I have a cat, so I know that when she digs her very sharp claws into my chest or stomach it's really… — Erik Naggum Affection 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
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
'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
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
In Norway, we have a community of people who prefer to use a version of Norwegian that looks very much like lutefisk:… — Erik Naggum Community Copy Share Image
it's just that in C++ and the like, you don't trust anybody, and in CLOS you basically trust everybody. The practical result… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
