Chapter-20 Quote by Orson Scott Card

“We need no extra cunning, no new ideas, no unnecessary gadgets, no frantic hyperactivity - all we need is less rationality.”

— Rolf Dobelli

“As usual in programming, if something is difficult for you to understand, it’s probably not a good idea.”

— Mark Lutz

“Programming is not about what you know. It's about what you can figure out.”

— Socrates

“Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn’t take it away from you.”

— John Carmack

“The key to creating a successful system is to make it as uncomplicated as possible.”

— Geralin Thomas

“The programmer at wit's end for lack of space can often do best by disentangling himself from his code, rearing back, and contemplating his…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

“All the obstacles existed solely in code, I thought.”

— Ka Wai Cheung

“Computers were a kind of magery in themselves, or might as well be - to people who didn't understand them, they were every bit…

— Orson Scott Card

“(...) rationality is a very narrowly restricted skill.”

— Noam Chomsky

“If you program a machine, you know what it’s capable of. If the machine is programming itself, who knows what it might do? The”

— Garry Kasparov

“Minimalism is built around the idea that there’s nothing that you’re lacking.”

— Fumio Sasaki

People imagine that programming is logical, a process like fixing a clock. Nothing could be further from the truth.

— Ellen Ullman