andreineculau’s most recent Quotables

Debate is where you refine your arguments and I have often learned as much from my debating opponents as from my partners, maybe more.

At the end, one voice in opposition can slow things down, but can’t make a difference.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.

My one regret in life is that I am not somebody else.

Constraints are not limitations; they are insight.

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

A perfect implementation of the wrong specification is worthless.

If you don’t understand why something was put in place, if the reason behind a norm or method is lost, investigate. Don’t assume it’s wrong.

That's chess! You've got to make some sacrifices!

The value of a well-designed object is when it has such a rich set of affordances that the people who use it can do things with it that the designer never imagined.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, & thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Limiting your choices gives you power.

the Internet should not be restricted in cases where the copyright infringements are clearly non-commercial

Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute

Human-readable instructions are what we use when nothing else works

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.