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Getting Things Done in Committee »

“To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.”

- Robert Copeland

Defeating Ignorant Men »

“It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.”

- William G. McAdoo

Get Even »

“Don’t get mad. Get even.”

- David Plankers (1946 - 2001)*

* also, I realize that he’s probably not the first to say it, it’s just where I heard it.

Shortcuts Aren’t »

“It’s hard to overemphasize how out-of-balance the economics are here. You saved maybe thirty person-seconds by skipping the review and checkpatch steps. But the cost (if this bug had gone into mainline) would be many many thousands times higher than this.” - Andrew Morton, admonishing someone on the LKML for not checking their work.

How many times a week do you work around shortcuts, where the original person saved a few minutes but cost weeks of time later?

The Future Is Called ‘Perhaps’ »

“The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.”

- Tennessee Williams

Grey’s Law »

Daring Fireball featured a great quote last Sunday, Grey’s Law:

“Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.”

Interestingly enough, nobody knows who “Grey” was.

Rosenberg’s Law »

“Software is easy to make, except when you want it to do something new.”

Weinberg’s Second Law »

“If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.”

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