March 2012
2 posts
September 2011
2 posts
I’d dare to make more mistakes next time. I’d relax, I would limber...
– Nadine Stair - If I Had My Life To Live Over
An ex-Yahoo here, using a throwaway account. Yahoo’s biggest problem is...
– Hacker News | Carol Bartz Out at Yahoo; CFO Interim CEO
August 2011
2 posts
The more we reflect on our commitment to a football club, a corporation, or any...
– Peter Singer, How Are We to Live?
Software is built on abstractions. Pick the right ones, and pro-
gramming will...
– Daniel Jackson, Software Abstractions, MIT Press, 2006.
July 2011
3 posts
We are right then in saying, that these virtues are formed in a man by his doing...
– Ethics by Aristotle
朝起きた時に,きょうも一日数学をやるぞと思ってるようでは,とてもものにならない。数学を考えながら,いつのまにか眠り,朝,目が覚めたときは既に数学の世界に入っていな...
– Suugaku ha tairyoku da!
織田信長が、ある有名な料理人を抱へた所が、始めて、其料理人の拵(こしら)へたものを食(く)つて見ると頗(すこぶ)る不味(まづ)かつたんで、大変小言(こごと)を云つ...
– 夏目漱石 それから
March 2011
1 post
Standards are paper. I use paper to wipe my butt every day. That’s how...
– Bug 638477 – Strange sound on mp3 flash website
July 2010
2 posts
Young man, in mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used...
– John von Neumann - Wikiquote
Greed is all right, by the way. I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and...
– Ivan Boesky - Wikiquote
June 2010
3 posts
71 Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him...
– The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pascal’s Pensées, by Blaise Pascal.
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is usually...
– The Possessed (the Devils), by Fyodor Dostoevsky
自惚(うぬぼれ)自惚(うぬぼれ)! こんな事では道を去る事三千里。まず明日からは心を入れ換えて勉強専門の事。こう決心して寝てしまう。
– 夏目漱石 倫敦消息
May 2010
1 post
もう一つ現代人の精神安定剤になっているものがある。 ヘロインほど習慣性がなく、アルコールほど害もない偉大なトランキライザー、...
– SINGER, PETER
April 2010
1 post
188 In every dialogue and discourse, we must be able to say to those who take...
– The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pascal’s Pensées, by Blaise Pascal.
February 2010
1 post
January 2010
6 posts
shiro...
– Gauche > Archives > 2010/01/04
Recently I read a final report of a research project funded by the Swiss...
– A Few Words with Niklaus Wirth
Good enough software” is rarely good enough. It is a sad manifestation of...
– A Few Words with Niklaus Wirth
This book is dedicated, in respect and admiration, to the spirit that lives in...
– Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
It used to be that we lived in private and chose to make parts of our lives...
– We All Live In Public Now. Get Used To It.
December 2009
7 posts
Ask for forgiveness, not for permission Any sufficiently large institution has...
– Sriram Krishnan Stuff I’ve learned at Microsoft
djb のプログラムは、美術品なんだ。 感性で理解するべき、偉大な作品だ。 djb のコードは、アウトラインの見た目が、すぐれた芸術のように心地よい。...
– djb (Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought)
かなり昔の話だが、ベル研のUNIXを作ったオペレーティングシステムを担当していたグループにオペレーティングシステムについての講演を頼まれたときに「日本語」の話をし...
– UTF-8小話 - Plan9日記
We called co-founder Eric Marcoulier for comment and he offered the following...
– Yahoo! Will Kill MyBlogLog Next Month
自分に甘くそして、優しく、子供達に厳しい指導者は要らないですよ。
たばこを吸いながら、ミーティングをするのは止めて下さいよ。...
– 気が付く:message 桑田真澄公式ブログ
You know, Arthur when I worked at IBM, I learned that it’s important to listen...
– Memories of Ken Iverson - Arthur Whitney
November 2009
22 posts
Regression testing”? What’s that? If it compiles, it is good, if it...
– Linus Torvalds - Wikiquote
Those that can, do. Those that can’t, complain.
– Linus Torvalds - Wikiquote
Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.
– Linus Torvalds - Wikiquote
My name is Linus Torvalds and I am your god.
– Linus Torvalds - Wikiquote
If you like using cvs, you should be in some kind of mental institution or...
– Plastic SCM blog: Linus Torvalds on GIT and SCM
For the first 10 years of kernel maintenance, we literally used tarballs and...
– Git (software) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Having “better” tools isn’t an advantage if other people can...
– Twitter / Justin Sheehy: Having “better” tools isn’ …
What are you views on the following languages: Perl, Java, and Ruby? I use Java...
– An inteview with Brian Kernighan, co-developer of AWK and AMPL - AMPL, AWK, a-z of programming languages, Brian Kernighan - Computerworld
I don’t see a lot of benefit in reading a lot of bad code, other than to...
– An inteview with Brian Kernighan, co-developer of AWK and AMPL - AMPL, AWK, a-z of programming languages, Brian Kernighan - Computerworld
The proof of a system’s value is its existence.
– Epigrams on Programming