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“The good craftsman places positive value on contingency and constraint.” #RichardSennett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Craftsman_(book)

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“The habit of starting to understand any new data by drawing pictures is certainly something we inculcate.” http://bactra.org/weblog/925.html

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“Naps are essential to my process.” #WilliamGibson

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“Debugging a program is twice as hard as writing one. If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you debug it?” #BrianKernighan

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“Everything good in life — love, nature, the arts, and family jests — is play.” #VladimirNabokov

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“[T]he intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or not.” #PeterMedawar https://www.weizmann.ac.il/mcb/UriAlon/sites/mcb.UriAlon/files/uploads/medawar.pdf

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“Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.” #AlanKay

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“I now believe that thinking [...] is the best debugging tool of all, because it leads to better software.” #RobPike https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1941206

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“[Lisp] programs read like quiet conversations between a researcher and a mechanical colleague, not as a debate with a compiler.” #RichardGabriel

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“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.” #Montaigne, 1580

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“[Lisp] has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.” #Dijkstra

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“A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. Only his are more permanent because they are made of ideas.” #GHHardy

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“Choose a data representation that makes your program simple.” #BrianKernighan, 1974

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“Use recursive procedures for recursively-defined data structures.” #BrianKernighan, 1974

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“By relieving the brain of all unnecesary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems.” #ANWhitehead

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“I don't have an enormous desire to help children, but I have an enormous desire to create better adults.” #AlanKay

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“Lisp has a crystalline purity that not only appeals to the aesthetic sense, but makes it far more flexible than most languages.” #Hofstadter

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“Let the data structure the program.” #BrianKernighan, 1974

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“There are no subject matters; no branches of learning — or, rather, inquiry: there are only problems, and the urge to solve them.” #KarlPopper

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“We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyze them.” #WilliamJames

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“The combination of data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from those data.” #JohnTukey

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“I have declared a spiritual war upon all coercion that restricts man's free creative activity.” #Lukasiewicz

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“There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.” Ken Olson, Digital Equipment Corporation, at the World Future Society Convention, 1977

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“[T]he user interface would have to become a learning environment along the lines of Montessori and Bruner.” #AlanKay http://dorophone.blogspot.com/2011/07/duckspeak-vs-smalltalk.html

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“Graphical presentation appears to be at the very heart of insightful data analysis.” #JohnTukey

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“Like fire, the chi-squared test is an excellent servant and a bad master.” #SirAustinBradfordHill

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“#DougMcIlroy doesn't use malloc to allocate memory. He uses his bare hands.” https://github.com/mischief/9problems/blob/master/lib/dougfacts

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“It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.” #AlanPerlis

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“In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.” #JonPostel, RFC791

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“XML amounts to some Lisp data structures reinterpreted by people with bad taste brainwashed by inflexibility.” #RichardGabriel

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“We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.” #ClaudeShannon

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“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” #AmeliaEarhart

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“No man ever wet clay and left it rest, expecting it to become bricks by chance and fortune.” #Plutarch

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“Every sizable program ever written has achieved robustness through testing and is inadequately understood even by its designers.” #JohnRegehr

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“The bottom of page 13 of the Lisp 1.5 manual was #Lisp itself. These were Maxwell's Equations of Software!” #AlanKay https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523

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“Several sciences are often necessary to form the groundwork of a single art.” #JohnStuartMill, 1848

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“Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.” #Dijkstra

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“A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.” #LeslieLamport

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“Simplicity is not an end in art, but we usually arrive at simplicity as we approach the true sense of things.” #ConstantinBrancusi

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“We build our computer [systems] the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.” #EllenUllman

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“Software's like Egyptian pyramids: millions of bricks, no structural integrity, done by brute force and 1000s of slaves.” #AlanKay https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523

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“An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.” John Tukey

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“[O]ne can build objects & their behavior from little more than assignable value cells & good old lambda expressions.” #RichardGabriel https://dreamsongs.com/ObjectsHaveNotFailedNarr.html

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“There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.” #DonaldKnuth on software patents

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“One can make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies or make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.” #TonyHoare

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“Humans are not physically normal in the absence of hard physical effort.” #MarkRippetoe

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#Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

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“Human history makes no sense without prehistory, and prehistory makes no sense without biology.” #EOWilson

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“At Atari we hired based on hobbies and not grades in school. We ended up with he best engineering group in the world.” #NolanBushnell

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“Only the mediocre are always at their best.” #JeanGiraudoux

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