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There's often more than one correct thing. There's often more than one right thing. There's often more than one obvious thing.
Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
I care about helping to address these problems of social cohesion and understanding what economic problems people think exist.
You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out.
I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
We have a rule that if you check in code, you have to maintain it. So I mostly code on the side. I don't check in code anymore.
Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.
Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.
I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
Connecting the world is really important, and that is something that we want to do. That is why Facebook is here on this planet.
In a small spacecraft, it was hard for the other two guys to sleep when the on-duty man was talking to Mission Control regularly.
So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.
One of the big lessons of a big project is you don't want people that aren't really programmers programming, you'll suffer for it!
The majority of people who don't have Internet, don't have the Internet because they don't know why they want to use the Internet.
If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.
Whenever I go to a new city, in order to help get on the right time zone and actually get a chance to see that city, I like running.
The world isn't set up equally, and the first billion people using Facebook have way more money than the rest of the world combined.
The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
What was it like working with John Carmack on Quake? Like being strapped onto a rocket during takeoff – in the middle of a hurricane.
Only my phone number and email are private because I don't want random people calling me. But I like the ability to share everything.
Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.
If we want to have the biggest impact, the best way to do this is to make sure we always focus on solving the most important problems.
I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.
I wanted to remain a technical adviser for Id, but it just didn't work out. Probably for the best, as the divided focus was challenging.
Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.
To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out.
You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.
There are some things that are exciting for distributors. I love Apple's AppStore and the things people can do with digital distribution.
I personally don't invest in a lot of companies because I think it would be a conflict of interest and Facebook doesn't typically either.
Secret to productivity is not finding more time to do more stuff, but finding the strength to do less of the stuff that doesnt need doing.
The Moon may not be quite as appealing as Mars, but it's still a complex and poorly understood world, with many questions still unanswered.
I try to shrug it off as a minor annoyance that whenever I do something successful, every capitalist out there wants a piece of the action.
In a lot of ways Berlin is a symbol for me of Facebook's mission: bringing people together, connecting people and breaking down boundaries.
For all the folks getting excited about my quotes. Here is another - Yes, I am a terrible coder, but I am probably still better than you :)
The iPhone brand is in worse shape than I thought was even possible. And the implications of that are huge... The iPhone is in deep trouble.
I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
It's a juicy thing to say we're building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it's so clearly the wrong strategy for us.
Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.
I really do think VR is now one of the most exciting things that can be done in this whole sector of consumer electronic entertainment stuff.
And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected.
When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open.