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"Most of us never became the kind of hackers depicted in “Hackers.” To “hack,” in the parlance of a programmer, is just to tinker—to express ingenuity through code." -- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/a-coder-considers-the-waning-days-of-the-craft by James Somers

"...programming is not really about knowledge or skill but simply about patience, or maybe obsession. Programmers are people who can endure an endless parade of tedious obstacles." -- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/a-coder-considers-the-waning-days-of-the-craft by James Somers

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." -- Richard Feynman

"I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned." -- Richard Feynman

"What’s great about this country is America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good." -- Andy Warhol

"if you don’t do your moral thinking in advance, the big, high-impact decisions don’t feel like big decisions at all, they feel like one more work item to get through on a Friday afternoon before going home for the weekend." -- https://lobste.rs/s/jmuflw/fraud_was_code#c_jjpyoh

"large organizations are inherently dysfunctional" -- https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/your-organization-probably-doesnt-want-to-improve-things/

"Trust arrives on foot, but leaves on horseback." -- Dutch proverb

" whartung: I’ll share this anecdote told by a friend of mine. He was on a team building a Modula-2 compiler for OS/2, and his group was working on the debugger. At some point a debugger becomes feature complete enough that you can use the debugger to ... debug the debugger. But this was OS/2 which has true multiple processes (unlike it’s contemporary Windows 3.1). So you could, naturally, run the debugger in one process and attached it to another process which, just so happens to be another instance of the debugger. As with all things, while doing this they encountered bugs in the debugger that, well, needed to be debugged. He said there was a certain epiphany when they realized, because of the multi process nature of OS/2, that they could debug the debugger debugging the debugger. ... timmisiak: I think my record when I was on the WinDbg? team was 5 debuggers deep. " -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37674960

"If you're not five minutes early, you're late"

"A GOP lawmaker in the room said McCarthy?