Brad Feld Quotes

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.

I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.

In C there are no data structures: there are pointers and pointer arithmetic. So you have a pointer into a data structure.

C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don't have ideas or don't have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn't offer much help.

C++ is a pile of crap.

The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management

Lives don't divide up into chapters. People don't just talk, while nothing's going on in their head, and then respond. You know, none of these things actually happen.

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

Zero-length arrays are useful only in cases where you have a large structure, which contains a field of dynamic length, and you need to share that structure across program or even computer boundaries.

The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

No one wants one language. There are applications when it's appropriate to write something in C rather than in Java. If you want to write something where performance is much more important than extensibility, then you might want to choose C rather than Java.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

I had spent the summer of 1966 working at MIT in the group that was the MIT component of the Multics effort.

I can be fascinated with very little things. The clouds stimulate my imagination, and sometimes I just sit somewhere and go on dreaming for a long time. Your head is also a computer. When you're dreaming, you are simulating a world in which you are living.

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited the linguistics research program at MIT, and we have worked together on several projects since.

With computer science, I had to go through that uncomfortable process of my brain establishing a hash table, if you will - the coders will get that - for this new information, because I didn't have one. So I had to establish a brand-new file system from scratch.

I started programming Apples in seventh grade.

At MIT, mostly what I did was documentation. I sort of read things. Wrote some descriptions of various aspects of the file system. Did not really do very much programming at all. At least on Multics.

I think I've started to dream in American a little bit.

I didn't do programming language stuff in college at all.