54 Quotes by Erik Naggum

Life is hard, and then you die.

Structure is nothing if it is all you got. Skeletons spook people if they try to walk around on their own. I really wonder why XML does not.

XML is a giant step in no direction at all.

The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn’t believe it if you had never tried it.

Gotos aren’t damnable to begin with. If you aren’t smart enough to distinguish what’s bad about some gotos from all gotos, goto hell.

Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm.

Sometimes, the only way to learn something really well is to revert to the state of mind of a novice and reawaken to the raw observations that you have accumulated instead of relying on the conclusions you have reached from the exogenous premises absorbed through teaching and bookish learning.

Optimization is generally detrimental to future success, but it is the only way to accomplish present success in competition with others who are equally interested in short-term results.

Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.