Archive for March, 2006
“With proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.”
“Unix was not designed to stop people from doing stupid things, because that would also stop them from doing clever things. ”
“Documentation is like sex; when it’s good, it’s very, very good, and when it’s bad, it’s better than nothing.”
“Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.”
“Don’t anthropomorphize computers. They don’t like it.”
“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”