Erik Naggum on Human Nature
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Erik Naggum, catalogued under Human Nature, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Erik Naggum, entry #75906: "Code sharing" is an economic surplus phenomenon. It works only when none of the people involved in it are in any form of need."
Attributed to Erik Naggum, entry #241177: "I'm bothered by the fact that stupid people don't spontaneously combust, which they should."
7 Quotes by Erik Naggum on Human Nature
"Code sharing" is an economic surplus phenomenon. It works only when none of the people involved in it are in any form of need."
"I'm bothered by the fact that stupid people don't spontaneously combust, which they should."
"Contrary to the foolish notion that syntax is immaterial, people optimize the way they express themselves, and so express themselves differently with different syntaxes."
"The secret to feeling great about yourself is not to be found in searching for people who are less than you and then show yourself superior to them, but in searching for people who are more than you and then show yourself worthy of their company."
"The novice-friendly software is more like a misbehaving dog: it shits on the floor, it destroys things, and stinks – the novice-friendly software embodies the opposite of what computer people have dreamed of for decades: artificial stupidity. It's more human."
"Historically, labor unions arose when people had gotten a taste of a different lifestyle and were willing to pay a lot more for their basic livelihood and had gotten into a fix they couldn't get out of – because they had accepted the unacceptable to begin with. Accepting something you have to form a labor union to fight after the fact only tells me that people were acting against their own best interests for a long time. I don't see any rational, coherent explanation for this sort of behavior in humans, but it's all over the place."
"The clumsiness of people who have to engage their brain at every step is unbearably painful to watch, at least to me, and that's what the novice-friendly software makes people do, because there's no elegance in them, it's just a mass of features to be learned by rote. However, this suits people a hell of a lot better than setting out at age 6 to become a great ballet dancer and achieving their goal 20 years later after every tendon and muscle and joint has been asked to perform just a little bit more than nature ever intended over and over and over again. To most people, this is insanity. But in reality, it's art, and it's the art in what we do that makes us human."