Effects Quote by Henry Spencer Download Open image “C++ is the best example of second-system effect since OS/360.” — Henry Spencer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Effects Example
I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was… — Miguel de Icaza Copy Share Image
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
“Because ease of use is the purpose, this ratio of function to conceptual complexity is the ultimate test of system design. Neither function alone… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Copy Share Image
I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. As the successor to DOS, which… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming,… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
“I mean, this is going to sound like heresy in a sort of Silicon Valley context, but you can program faster, you can get… — Ashlee Vance Copy Share Image
Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals. — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
If I must be ruled by larcenous bullies, I much prefer that they be located far away. Local bullies know far more about me… — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better. — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
“Indeed, "brute force" solutions are often characteristic of advanced cultures, not primitive ones. The Romans and their predecessors spent a long time figuring out… — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
“8th Commandment: "Thou shalt make thy program's purpose and structure clear to thy fellow man by using the One True Brace Style, even if… — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'. — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats. — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other. — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
If you're having a bad day already and everybody is just asking you petty questions, it drives people to the edge, or something really… — Jess Weixler Copy Share Image
The internet is very democratizing in some ways, but it also has other effects. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The beautiful image today means nothing. It's worthshit. In fact, it's almost as if it has the opposite effect, becauseyou're just like everything else… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Antidepressants are the biggest fraud in the world. Number one, Prozac gives you a royal soft-on like you wouldn't believe, and number two you… — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
