“Things have gotten faster but the software has gotten slower and buggier in the meantime.” — Peter Seibel Programming 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 Batteries 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 Java 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!”… — Peter Seibel Night 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… — Peter Seibel Internet 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… — Peter Seibel Making change 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… — Peter Seibel Books 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… — Peter Seibel Better way 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… — Peter Seibel Motivational 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.… — Peter Seibel Memory 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… — Peter Seibel Kindlehighlight 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… — Peter Seibel History Copy Share Image
“Nobody, at least on the Unix side, had any idea they wanted it yet. Everyone uses them now but we had to… — Peter Seibel Time Copy Share Image
“When you're debugging something and then you figure out that not only is the map wrong but the tools are broken—that's a… — Peter Seibel Time Copy Share Image
“He came in and took a piss in my hotel bathroom without even closing the door as I'm standing right there. I'm… — Peter Seibel Five years Copy Share Image
“Joe Armstrong: I think the lack of reusablility comes in object-oriented languages, not in functional languages. Because the problem with object-oriented languages… — Peter Seibel Copy Share Image
“Seibel: How do you read code you didn't write? Crockford: By cleaning it. I'll throw it in a text editor and I'll… — Peter Seibel Long run Copy Share Image
“And once I realized that code I write never fucking goes away and I'm going to be a maintainer for life. I… — Peter Seibel Kindlehighlight Copy Share Image
“Readability of code is now my first priority. It's more important than being fast, almost as important as being correct, but I… — Peter Seibel First priority Copy Share Image
“I would send out some contests. “Here's some code. Here's the benchmark. Make it fast.” I sent our load balancer's header parsing.… — Peter Seibel Next day Copy Share Image
