Ryan Tomayko

Sayre's Law —

More general version of Parkinson’s Law of Triviality (AKA “bike shedding”):

“In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the stakes at issue.”

Via this HN comment thread discussing the tendency of both Ruby and Python hackers tend to favor their chosen language with vehemence.

On Bacon and Simplicity —

Thomas Jefferson: “I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.”

Spotted on bacon.reddit.com…

OO C is passable —

Yossi Kreinin: “But I miss virtual functions. I really do. I sincerely think that each and every notable feature C++ adds to C makes the language worse, with the single exception of virtual functions.”

Knowledge Acquisition —

John Panzer: “Software development is a knowledge acquisition activity, not a manufacturing activity.”

Bill Gates (clearly on crack): "Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day." —

“Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.”

Quotations for Learning Programming —

“I have enjoyed reading (and writing), collecting, and pondering the following quotations, which I think are all relevant to teaching and learning programming.”

No hero —

Fuck yea, Len..

Thomas H. Huxley Quotes —

“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.”

Ritual Cat