Damian Conway famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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C++ tries to guard against Murphy, not Machiavelli.
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Documentation is a love letter that you write to your future self.
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Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy and human stupidity. These are not things you can overcome with a "methodology" or on a schedule.
-- Damian Conway
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It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.
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If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.
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I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.
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Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.
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Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.
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Good satire goes beyond the specific point it’s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, you’re not left believing everything they’re telling you.
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If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
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I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.
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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.
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Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.
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