Category: quote
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“Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so-called ‘powerful’ programming languages belong to the solution set rather than to the problem set?”
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Make haste slowly.
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The Criminals
These are the days that test your heart and soul. Strap yourself in for the American Fall. Day after day it is a crash and burn. Our nation hijacked by the criminals. Whoa oh.
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Racists
It’s in the things that you say and you don’t say. You don’t know it ’cause you’re such a fucking cliche. The way you define them and us. Those you fear and those you trust.
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Debts must be paid
Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid. — Valery Legasov, Chernobyl (HBO)
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Litany Against Fear
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will…
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The Horse, the Stag, and the Hunter
A quarrel had arisen between the Horse and the Stag, so the Horse came to a Hunter to ask his help to take revenge on the Stag. The Hunter agreed, but said: “If you desire to conquer the Stag, you must permit me to place this piece of iron between your jaws, so that I…
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The structure of the program should exactly follow the structure of the problem. Each real world concurrent activity should be mapped onto exactly one concurrent process in our programming language. If there is a 1:1 mapping of the problem onto the program we say that the program is isomorphic to the problem. It is extremely…
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Thank You, Tim
We believe that privacy is a fundamental human right. No matter what country you live in, that right should be protected in keeping with four essential principles: First, companies should challenge themselves to de-identify customer data or not collect that data in the first place. Second, users should always know what data is being…
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Joel Salatin Programming
…we respect and honor the pigness of the pig and the chickenness of the chicken. Joel Salatin Joel Salatin is an innovative farmer / agricultural philosopher(!) who has inspired me personally for quite some time. One of his farming tenets is respecting the inherent nature of the animals and the environment under his care. That…
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