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Quote of the Day

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Simone

So The Pirate Bay has executed the Web 2.0 business plan to perfection: give someone else’s stuff away for free – then find a bigger idiot to buy the company. [...] in the case of Web 2.0, companies go from … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Day

Posted on August 4, 2008 by Simone

[...] a good programmer cultivates the virtue of laziness. (But not just any laziness: you must be aggressively, proactively lazy!) – Chris Pine, dealing with the DRY rule

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Quote of the Day

Posted on July 12, 2008 by Simone

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. – Richard Cook, read on FSM

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Quote of the Day

Posted on July 6, 2008 by Simone

[...] as we all know, premature optimization is the root of all evil. – from a cocoa-dev email amen!

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Quote of the Day

Posted on June 7, 2008 by Simone

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. – Linus Torvalds

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Quote of the Day

Posted on April 18, 2008 by Simone

I always assumed the designers of the Objective-C language and Cocoa frameworks trust me to know what I’m doing while I find very elegant ways to shoot myself in the foot. – from a mail sent to Cocoa-dev

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Quote of the Day

Posted on January 6, 2008 by Simone

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. – Edsger Dijkstra

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Quote of the Day

Posted on December 10, 2007 by Simone

You know it’s Monday when you wake up and it’s Tuesday. — Garfield

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Quote of the day

Posted on August 27, 2007 by Simone

Out of the darkness a voice spoke unto me, saying “smile, things could be worse”. So I smiled, and so, things became worse. (from the signature of an email I’ve just read)

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