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"The enjoyment of one’s tools is an essential ingredient of successful work."

Mon, 06 May 2013 13:02:48 -0300

“The enjoyment of one’s tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.”

- Donald Knuth

"Talent is cheaper then table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is..."

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:57:15 -0300

“Talent is cheaper then table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”

- Stephen King

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less"

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:46:51 -0300

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less”

- C.S. Lewis

"It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth"

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:11:07 -0300

“It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth”

- W. Edward Deming, “The New Economics”

"If you’re the most intelligent person in the room… You’re in the wrong room."

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:24:41 -0300

“If you’re the most intelligent person in the room… You’re in the wrong room.”

- James D. Watson

"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing"

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:14:04 -0400

“He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing”

- Paul Muad’Dib (character from Dune)

"Never commit to memory what can be easily looked up in books."

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:17:59 -0400

“Never commit to memory what can be easily looked up in books.”

- Albert Einstein

"The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas."

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:08:44 -0400

“The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.”

- Linus Pauling

"Unix was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid things, as that would also stop them from..."

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:22:17 -0400

“Unix was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid things, as that would also stop them from doing clever things.”

- Doug Gwyn

"When faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at..."

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:12:48 -0400

“When faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again”

- Grady Booch (citing Heinlein)

"There must always be an end in view, and the end must not be final."

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:25:54 -0400

“There must always be an end in view, and the end must not be final.”

- Eliel Saarinen

"An underlying problem with artificial intelligence that I have personally experience in my forty..."

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:26:57 -0400

“An underlying problem with artificial intelligence that I have personally experience in my forty years in this area is that as soon as an AI technique works, it’s no longer considered AI and is spun off as its own field (for example, character recognition, speech recognition, machine vision, robotics, data mining, medical informatics, automated investing.)”

- Ray Kurzweil

"Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence just boils..."

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:55:39 -0400

“Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.”

- Aaron Swartz, How to Get a Job Like Mine

"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can..."

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:18:01 -0400

“A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable.”

"Amateurs practice until they get it right. Professionals practice until they can’t get it..."

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:43:59 -0400

“Amateurs practice until they get it right. Professionals practice until they can’t get it wrong.”

"If it’s your decision, it’s design; if not, it’s a requirement."

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:35:22 -0400

“If it’s your decision, it’s design; if not, it’s a requirement.”

- Alastair Cockburn

"Life isn’t supposed to be easy. It’s supposed to be incredible."

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:03:34 -0400

“Life isn’t supposed to be easy. It’s supposed to be incredible.”

- Andrew W. K.

"Inside every large, complex program is a small, elegant program that does the same thing, correctly."

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:27:12 -0400

“Inside every large, complex program is a small, elegant program that does the same thing, correctly.”

- John Graham-Cumming in Some things I’ve learnt about programming

"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are..."

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:06:50 -0400

“There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.”

- Tony Hoare

"Using punctuation and full sentences is a way of showing respect."

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:58:30 -0300

“Using punctuation and full sentences is a way of showing respect.”

- StackOverflow user devinb