Paul Miller

“Beer production was reduced in all the European combatants, but the reduction was more severe among the Central Powers: a fall of two-thirds for Germany, compared with just over half for Britain.”
― Niall Ferguson, The Pity of War: Explaining World War I

“but normal practice in Go is to deal with the error in the if block and then return, so that the successful execution path is not indented.”
― Alan A. A. Donovan, The Go Programming Language

“It’s all bits at the bottom, of course, but computers operate fundamentally on fixed-size numbers called words,”
― Alan A. A. Donovan, The Go Programming Language

“The subtle part is that the input slice and the output slice share the same underlying array. This avoids the need to allocate another array, though of course the contents of data are partly overwritten, as evidenced by the second print statement:”
― Alan A. A. Donovan, The Go Programming Language