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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.

— Alan Kay

3 December 2009 • wisdom java programming

In practice, nothing works. There are all these beautiful abstractions that are backed by shit. The implementations of libraries that look like they could be beautiful are shit.

— Brad Fitzpatrick (taken from “Coders at work”)

10 November 2009 • wisdom programming

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make
it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way
is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

— C.A.R. Hoare

4 October 2009 • software design wisdom

An ideal world is left as an excercise to the reader.

— Paul Graham, On Lisp 8.1

4 September 2009 • wisdom