"SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing."

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Source : "How long is the average Internet discussion forum posting?". Philip Greenspun's Weblog, blogs.harvard.edu. March 7, 2005.

Philip Greenspun

#Thinking Quotes #Language Quotes #Programming Quotes

“Next to knowing how to dress well, fire is one of the most important bush skills there are, because it is one of the few means available to make up most great deficiencies.”
“But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.”
“When there aren't any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.”

Source : Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Gate Thief”, p.40, Macmillan
“Most people believe they have a clear idea of what's right and wrong. Many say they know how they'll act, or how they'll handle an extreme situation. But to be honest, no one knows. Not reallyBecause none of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.”
“Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that what the virtue of wit contained was the vice of scorn.”

Source : Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.101, Vintage
“the Americans must have the Almighty dollar. Their cupidity renders them daring and indifferent to everything else. It is nothing to them to expose their lives and those of others in order to gain money. How materialistic these people are!”
“We were staring at the origin of a piece of our own bodies inside this 375-million-year-old fish. We had a fish with a wrist.”

Source : Neil Shubin (2008). “Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body”, p.38, Vintage
“If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn't even begun to pull out the knife.”

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