Programming Quote by Peter Seibel

““Things have gotten faster but the software has gotten slower and buggier in the meantime.””

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“Ironically, as a result of his move to the country, Cosell- one of the fathers of the Internet-now has only dial-up access from his…

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“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 really fun…

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“so we'll focus on the Windows side of things and then we'll port it later.” Which is what many other failed companies have done.…

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“one thing that separates good programmers from bad programmers is that good programmers are more facile at jumping between layers of abstraction—they can keep…

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“And he was like, “No, no, I really think we ought to do that.” And I was like, “We don't have time!” So he…

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“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 because in…

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“Moore's law doesn't apply to batteries. So how much time we're wasting in interpreting stuff really matters there. The cycles count.”

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“When they realize, “Oh, my program's getting gigantic,” what are they going to do? They're not going to know where to start. That's my…

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“I always wish people would comment more, though the thing that makes me cringe is when the comment is the name of the function…

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“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.”

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“nobody seemed to think programming is a solved problem: most are still looking for a better way to write software, whether by finding ways…

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“There was a bug in GDB!”

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