Simone 'Wiz' Tellini - Quotes

Quote of the Day

nospam@example.com (Simone) — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:15:41 -0700

So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated.

-- Bill Gates, supposedly

Quote of the Day

nospam@example.com (Simone) — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:06:35 -0700

When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls

-- Ted Grant

Quote of the Day

nospam@example.com (Simone) — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:53:09 -0700

[...] a good programmer cultivates the virtue of laziness. (But not just any laziness: you must be aggressively, proactively lazy!)

-- Chris Pine, dealing with the DRY rule

Quote of the Day

nospam@example.com (Simone) — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:15:14 -0700

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

-- Richard Cook, read on FSM

Quote of the Day

nospam@example.com (Simone) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:21:04 -0700

[...] as we all know, premature optimization is the root of all evil.

-- from a cocoa-dev email

amen!

Quote of the Day

nospam@example.com (Simone) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:50:39 -0700

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

-- Linus Torvalds

Quote of the Day

nospam@example.com (Simone) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:07:59 -0700

I always assumed the designers of the Objective-C language and Cocoa frameworks trust me to know what I'm doing while I find very elegant ways to shoot myself in the foot.

-- from a mail sent to Cocoa-dev

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nospam@example.com (Simone) — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:00:00 -0800

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

-- Edsger Dijkstra

Quote of the Day

nospam@example.com (Simone) — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:05:08 -0800

You know it's Monday when you wake up and it's Tuesday.

-- Garfield

Quote of the day

nospam@example.com (Simone) — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:56:14 -0700

Out of the darkness a voice spoke unto me, saying "smile, things could be worse". So I smiled, and so, things became worse.

(from the signature of an email I've just read)

Riddle

nospam@example.com (Simone) — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:41:26 -0800

What can run but never walks,
Has mouth but never talks,
Has a bed but never sleeps,
Has a head but never weeps?

taken from The Waste Lands by Stephen King, which I'm currently reading.

(and yes, I did guess the solution before reading it later on )

On the origin of the Universe

nospam@example.com (Simone) — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:36:18 -0800

I've just read this quote from Lords and Ladies in an email signature:

"Much human ingenuity has gone into finding the ultimate Before.
The current state of knowledge can be summarized thus:
In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded"
- Terry Pratchett

Terry is a genius.