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“Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.”

“Far too often, "software engineering" is neither engineering nor about software.”

“An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.”

“Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naïve or a salesman.”

“If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.”

“The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.”

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"is set of meanings, the configuration of semantic patterns, that are typically drawn upon under the specified conditions, along with the words and structures that are used in the realization of these …"

— Michael Halliday

linguistics1925–2018

#friendship

"Some sensual unthinking persons affirm, that a long life is no great blessing, and that the state of a man, who has passed his seventy-fifth year, cannot really be called life; but this is wrong, as I…"

— Luigi Cornaro

Philosophy1475–1566

#mind

"Astaire really sweat - he toiled. He was a humorless Teutonic man, the opposite of his debonair image in top hat and tails. I liked him because he was an entertainer and an artist. There's a distincti…"

— Fred Astaire

Music1899–1987

#humor

"The fine art world and the commercial art industry are both all about money. It's hard to say which is more contemptible: the fine art world with its double talk and pretensions to the cultural high g…"

— Robert Crumb

Art1943

#work