Erik Naggum on Philosophy
Browse 8 quotations attributed to Erik Naggum, catalogued under Philosophy, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Erik Naggum, entry #9575: "Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder."
Attributed to Erik Naggum, entry #161290: "Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems in C, so you don't."
8 Quotes by Erik Naggum on Philosophy
"Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder."
"Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems in C, so you don't."
"For some reason, the United States is the only country on Earth where accidents don't happen – it's always somebody's fault, and you can sue that somebody for neglect."
"Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer."
"I have argued that a religion or a philosophy cannot speak about facts of the world – if it does, it is now or will eventually be wrong – but it can and should speak about the relevance and ranking of facts and observations."
"C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to memory objects into which any random function may write random values without having a clue where they point, has not been debunked as the sheer idiocy it really is."
"Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable for any reason, seeking the comfort of those who agree with them, do not contradict them, and take care of their emotions. I am not one of those people. If I had a motto, it would probably be Herd thither, me hither."
"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 feedback you accept, the more insane your reasoning will become as you will necessarily reject corrective feedback that would have led to better reasoning."