Quotes
Quote: Albert Einstein
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Anyone who reads too much and uses their own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Quote: Antoine Reversat & —
IF IT CAN’T BE MySQL AND IT CAN’T BE YourSQL, THEN IT’S JUST GONNA HAVE TO BE NoSQL !!! –The Oracle
Quote: Joe Hewitt
On developing for the Android platform: “Once a day or so it hits me that I am writing Java, and I cry a little.”
Quote: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What is fragile should break early while it is still small.
Quote/Link: Gavin Elliott
…but again the users just wanted to use the buttons, not have sex with them. A… charming way to say “function over form” From a great little article about buttons: http://www.gavinelliott.co.uk/2010/08/the-evolution-of-a-button/
Quote: Lewis Perlman
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
Quote: Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Quote: Heinz Holliger
To put it rather bluntly, normal people do not compose – or they compose like Carl Czerny or Murzio Clementi. You need a certain amount of openness and non-conformism to be creative. People who are considered mad have not been taught by life to wall up their openness and they have more direct contact to their [...]
Quote: Random Machinery
…it’s part of my triumph of an argument with creation.
Quote: —
Unwavering consistency to a limited set of possibilities is the crutch of a weak mind; the willingness to carve out facets from a defined system is the sign of a stronger mind recognizing that system’s interaction with the sublime.