Bruce Tate quotes

“Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one.”
-- Bruce Tate

Source : Bruce Tate, Justin Gehtland (2004). “Better, Faster, Lighter Java”, p.31, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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“Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and many calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.”

Source : "The Doctrine of Chances: Or, A Method of Calculating the Probabilities of Events in Play".

“Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the ‘core aspect of the design’”

“The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.”

“I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you'll lead a very dull life.”

“A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.”

“All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!”

“The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.”

“Very nice couplet, although there are dull stretches.”

“Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.”

“I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.”