Steve Yegge quotes

“Great programmers learn how to program their tools, not just use them.”
-- Steve Yegge

#Tools Quotes #Use Quotes #Program Quotes

“About half of all design patterns out there [...] appear to be ways take perfectly natural design ideas and twist them to fit into someones static type system: recipes for pounding square pegs into round holes”
-- Steve Yegge

#Ideas Quotes #Squares Quotes #Design Quotes

“We don't have a Steve Jobs here. I'm sorry, but we don't.”
-- Steve Yegge

Source : "Platforms, Not Products: A Googler's Hot-Mic Sound-Off On G+" by Tim Carmody, www.wired.com. October 12, 2011.

#Jobs Quotes #Sorry Quotes

“Bezos is super smart; don't get me wrong. He just makes ordinary control freaks look like stoned hippies.”
-- Steve Yegge

Source : Steve Yegge (2012). “A Programmer's Rantings: On Programming-Language Religions, Code Philosophies, Google Work Culture, and Other Stuff”, p.368, Hyperink Inc

#Smart Quotes #Hippie Quotes #Looks Quotes

“If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work.”
-- Steve Yegge

#Computer Quotes

“Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.”
-- Steve Yegge

Source : "Code's Worst Enemy". steve-yegge.blogspot.ru. December 19, 2007.

#Games Quotes #Pieces Quotes #Java Quotes

“If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.”

“Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.”

“I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.”

“The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.”

“What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?”

“Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.”

“You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.”

“A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.”

“Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.”

Source : Arthur Bloch (1991). “The complete Murphy's law: a definitive collection”, PSS Adult

“The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.”

Source : "A History of Terrorism" by Walter Laqueur, (p. 71), 2001.