Scott Fahlman famous quotes

03-28-2025

In case you're not a computer person, I should probably point out that 'Real Soon Now' is a technical term meaning 'sometime before the heat-death of the universe, maybe'.
-- Scott Fahlman

#Real #Heat #Computer
If you can't take the heat, don't tickle the dragon.
-- Scott Fahlman

#Dragons #Heat
Common Lisp is politics, not art.
-- Scott Fahlman

#Art #Common
If you want a language that tries to lock up all the sharp objects and fire-making implements, use Pascal or Ada: the Nerf languages, harmless fun for children of all ages, and they won't mar the furniture.
-- Scott Fahlman

#Children #Fun #Fire
If you are always pressing the envelope, you will suffer many paper cuts.
-- Scott Fahlman

#Cutting #Suffering #Paper

The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relationship at all. No real relationship goes just one way. There are always two active parties. We must have reverence and awe for God, and honor for the chain of tradition. But that doesn't mean we can't use new information to help us read the holy texts in new ways.
Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.
Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.
I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.
Pre-heat the oven? Really? If I was the sort of person who planned ahead, I wouldn't be eating this Totino's Party Pizza in the first place.
I drive a hybrid, and we've changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and geothermal ground source heat pumps and most everything else.
I don't know anything about computers.
Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.
God is like a computer, the more software you put in, the greater the danger that extensions will conflict.

Scott Fahlman famous quotes

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