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The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.
My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
I like to pride myself on thinking pretty long term, but not that long term.
Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.
Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try.
I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.
Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.
I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day.
Email is not going to disappear. Possibly ever. Until the robots kill us all.
I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.
I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.
I think people tend to be worried about every new technology that comes along.
After you finish the first 90% of a project, you have to finish the other 90%.
Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world
Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.
I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.
A lot of the work at Oculus has gone into working out better position tracking.
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)
Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.
If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.
There's a saying in the software design industry: "Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two."
Free basic internet access should be like dialing 911 in the US or 100 in India.
Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.
What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they're proud of.
A guy who makes a new chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever built a chair.
Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.
It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.
So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available.
Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
We also have a dog. His name's Beast. He's a sheepdog. He's super cute. I love him.
I'm trying to make the world a more open place by helping people connect and share.
People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.
I now fully expect to spend the rest of my career pushing VR as far ahead as I can.
I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.
Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
I'd like to show an improved product rather than just talk about things we might do.
The ability to share whole scenes form our lives will be a valuable thing over time.
I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like.
Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.