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• The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so,…
• I love making friends.... it's people I can't stand.
• I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code…
• Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.
• Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.
• If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.
• Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
• Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.
• A lot of people want to have market share numbers, lots of users, because that's how they view their self worth. For…
• On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.
• Only wimps use tape backup. REAL men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror…
• Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

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