John Ousterhout quotes

“The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.”
-- John Ousterhout

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“The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.”
-- John Ousterhout

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“A program that produces incorrect results twice as fast is infinitely slower.”
-- John Ousterhout

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“There are two types of computer languages; those that people hate and those that nobody uses.”
-- John Ousterhout

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“Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.”

“In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.”

“I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level, the transition to digital isnt something I welcome wholeheartedly.”

Source : "Paper Earthworks and Digital Tides" by Barry Eisler, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.

“The more you look down on others, the less ANYBODY will look up to you...”

“In the phusical sense, 'playing a fret less instrument in tune' is an impossibility. Hence what we call 'playing in tune' is no more than an extremely rapid skilfully carried out improvement of the originally inexactly located pitch.”

“The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.”

“A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.”

“Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state.”

“Our critique of Israel has to be about the state, not culture or religion, but the state of Israel”

“Being a Scotsman, I am naturally opposed to water in its undiluted state.”