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Book cover for Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages
By introspection. I study the program for so long and poke at it more or less systematically for so long that I have sufficient understanding to provide an educated guess where the bug is. Testing is something else, and so is design to ...more
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

Seneca
“Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things—eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies—since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.”
Seneca

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. Men looked at her and wanted to fill her up with babies right away.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Why compound the problem by focusing your energy on things that are beyond your immediate control?”
Terry Orlick, In Pursuit of Excellence: How to Win in Sport and Life Through Mental Training

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“- Why me?
- That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?
- Yes.
- Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.”
Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

1038170 World Economic Forum Book Club — 329 members — last activity Dec 16, 2019 01:49AM
Welcome to the World Economic Forum's Book Club. Here you can discover the books we have featured, the upcoming book of the month and find out how to ...more
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