54 Quotes by Erik Naggum

The aspects you are willing to ignore are more important than the aspects you are willing to accept.

Would you buy a book proudly stating on the cover that its reader is a dummy? Or would you think “of course it’s ironic”?

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I regret that this isn’t fatal.

A system needs to be alive and workable even when other people than the first enthusiasts start using it. Reinvention and revolution are enthusiast stuff. Invention and evolution are engineering.

If you want to know why Lisp doesn’t win around you, find a mirror.

Once we were Programmers. Maybe our last best hope is a movie.

I have long since given up dealing with people who hold idiotic opinions as if they had arrived at them through thinking about them.

Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that makes those who disagree with it want to obey its principles.

Let’s just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it.