"All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky."

--

Joel Spolsky

#Degrees Quotes

“I am in favor, heartily in favor, of our Constitution and Bill of Rights and I owe my allegiance to my country at all times.”
“Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.”
“A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if it speaks only to scientists, or only to jurists, or priests, or any other special class.”
“The situation of women living in Islam-stricken societies and under Islamic laws is the outrage of the 21st century. Burqa-clad and veiled women and girls, beheadings, stoning to death, floggings, child sexual abuse in the name of marriage and sexual apartheid are only the most brutal and visible aspects of women's rightlessness and third class citizen status in the Middle East”
“Everyone declares that love is irrational, and yet everytime this statement is proven correct, they profess amazement. They seem to assume that love will make an exception in their case. It never does.”
“What I love about making movies is that it's a collaboration. It's one of the most rewarding things, to create something and have someone show you something that you didn't see, and vice versa.”
“The theoretical side of physical chemistry is and will probably remain the dominant one; it is by this peculiarity that it has exerted such a great influence upon the neighboring sciences, pure and applied, and on this ground physical chemistry may be regarded as an excellent school of exact reasoning for all students of the natural sciences.”

Source : Svante Arrhenius (1912). “Theories of Solutions”
“Keep it weird. They'll get it later.”

You may also like:

Bill Gates
Investor
Jamie Zawinski
Programmer
Martin Fowler
Software engineer
Rands
Author
Satya Nadella
Executive
Steve Ballmer
Businessman
Steve McConnell
Author
Tom DeMarco
Software Engineer
Jeff Atwood
Software Developer