Verity Stob quotes

“The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.”
-- Verity Stob

Source : "Catch as Catch Can". www.theregister.co.uk. January 11, 2006.

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“Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension.”
-- Verity Stob

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“Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa.”
-- Verity Stob

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“This does not mean that I fail to recognise that Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension. It just means that I have no idea how, or indeed if, Lisp handles exceptions.”
-- Verity Stob

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“As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards ("marcher vers", Fr.) the accomplishment of its true destinies.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 60), 1937.

“There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.”

Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM "SIGPLAN" Notices 17 (9), (pp. 7-13), September 1982.

“The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.”

“You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.”

“The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.64, Delphi Classics

“Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.”

“The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.”

“War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.”

“As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.