Erik Naggum

"Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder."

"A "new" language that differs from the rest of the crop by one or a couple features is proof positive that both what it came from and what it has become are mutations about to die. There are tens if n…"

"Optimization is generally detrimental to future success, but it is the only way to accomplish present success in competition with others who are equally interested in short-term results."

"They are not identical. The aspects you are willing to ignore are more important than the aspects you are willing to accept. Robbery is not just another way of making a living, rape is not just anothe…"

"Suppose you want to convert a bunch of pictures into icons. Suppose you know how to do that with one picture: you click on the file, "drag" it over to the icon-generating program, then "drop" it there…"

"When all actions are used for feedback, the consequence of making mistakes will be a corrective and appropriate response, because everything everybody does matters. … The more selective you are in the…"

"I guess there are some things that are so gross you just have to forget, or it'll destroy something within you. Perl is the first such thing I have known."

"Common Lisp is a big-city language. Spit out the hayseed, pronounce "shit" with one syllable and "shotgun" with two. You're not in Kansas, anymore. C is the language of the poor farmer village where t…"