"The cleaner and nicer the program, the faster it's going to run. And if it doesn't, it'll be easy to make it fast."

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Source : "Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming". Book by Peter Seibel, 2009.

Joshua Bloch

#Running Quotes #Easy Quotes #Program Quotes

“A nation isthe universality of citizens speaking the same tongue.”
“City and country -- each has its own beauty and its own pain. Some of the smallness of small towns -- cattiness, everybody knowing everybody's business -- that can be challenging. And cities can be challenging, because no one can connect except electronically.”
“Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.”
“Oh, God, I'm so lonely. An entire weekend streching ahead with no one to love or have fun with. Anyway, I don't care. I've got a lovely steamed ginger pudding from M&S to put in the microwave.”
“Ninety percent of what youre saying isnt coming out of your mouth.”
“It was always hard for me to really make friends, but that's just because I like to stay home.”
“In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male, to graduate from high school, college, or university without ever having cared for, or even held, a baby; without ever having comforted or assisted another human being who really needed help. . . . No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations, and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.”

Source : "The Ecology of Human Development".
“... clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like it. This argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think.”

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