Erik Naggum on Success
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Erik Naggum, catalogued under success, with dates where available.
This page displays 5 quotations attributed to Erik Naggum and filed under "success" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Erik Naggum, entry #153867: "In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief."
Attributed to Erik Naggum, entry #192014: "What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix."
5 Quotes by Erik Naggum on Success
"In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief."
"What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix."
"Member of AAAI AAAS ACM AMS APS ASA ASL IEEE IMS MAA NYAS PSA SIAM USENIX The United States of America still symbolizes individualism, rationality, and intellectual achievement to me — even though most Americans disagree."
"The fundamental deficiency in HTML is that it reduces hypertext and the intertwinedness of human communication to a question of how it is rendered and what happens when you click on it. … HTML is to the browser what PostScript is to the laser printer."
"If, however, one factor is too successful, it will continue to be the winning factor regardless of the variation in the other factors over the range of variation in the conditions, and therefore will stifle the development of other advantageous factors until the conditions change sufficiently that it no longer is the winning factor. At this point, the whole population is ill prepared for the change, and may well perish entirely if the winning factor accidentally becomes the matching factor for a disease or a predator."