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.
When you become untouchable,
you’re unable to touch.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to show you a brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken. Then this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the jack of spades jump out of this brand-new deck of cards and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, you do not accept this bet, because as sure as you stand there, you’re going to wind up with an ear full of cider.
Yet, finally, war is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in this world.