Michael Jackson Quotes

The tech industry used to be home to a disproportionate number of misfits and weirdos. Geeks. Nerds. People who needed to know how machines worked: needed to take them apart, make them better, and put them back together again.

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile

This is a software-powered world.

I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world

Apple is the only company in the world that has all of that under one roof. We can invent a complete a solution that works - and take responsibility for it.

Warren is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles who outrun the hares are learning machines. If you stop learning in this world, the world rushes right by you.

I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can't begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can't see how others have done it.

Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time

In a concurrent world, imperative is the wrong default!

Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.

I think that computer programming shows in my writing. Often when I write about computer programmers I'll write about the way that they see the world and they structure the world.

Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?

The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity.

I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.

No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it.

I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy. That is the primary purpose of Ruby language.

The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are.

The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.

Where are the leaders?' Sapphique asked. 'In the fortresses,' the swan replied. 'And the poets?' 'Lost in dreams of other worlds.' 'And the craftsmen?' 'Forging machines to challenge the darkness.' 'And the Wise, who made the world?' The swan lowered its black neck sadly. 'Dwindled to crones and sorcerers in towers.

You can prematurely optimize maintainability, flexibility, security, and robustness just like you can performance.

The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer