If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter
If you say something that offends no one, you haven’t said anything
’Better’ is the enemy of ‘good’
The cost of perfection is infinite
If someone claims they know what they’re doing, run the fuck away. The most dangerous sort of idiot is one who believes himself a genius
People who don’t want you to think are never your friend
You can joke about anything, but not with anyone
Laugh, and the world will laugh with you.
Cry, and you will cry alone
Are you HTTP? Because your absence leaves me like this: //
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity
Good things might come to those who wait,
not to those who wait too late
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance
The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from
But I haven’t met a human yet
Who is living with no regrets
If there is a solution to a problem, there is no need to worry.
And if there is no solution, there is no need to worry
Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise
They say it so early in the paper it gotta be true
There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things
There are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors
There are only two hard problems in distributed systems:
2. Exactly-once delivery
1. Guaranteed order of messages
2. Exactly-once delivery
There’s two hard problems in computer science: we only have one joke and it’s not funny
There are so many variations on the “there are only two hard problems in computer programming…” joke that I’m starting to suspect that programming isn’t actually very easy