Quotes I Came Across
Some quotes I plan to use in my future book revisions.
- Much of my work has come from being lazy. // John W. Backus о создании языка Fortran.
- In documenting the requirements specification, remember that specs are like snowmen. They may be frozen now, but they shift, slip, and melt away when the heat is on. // Leo Brodie “THINKING FORTH”
- Дрожь и негодование, по-русски “батхёрт” // Бача по мотивам Че Гевары.
- A really advanced hacker comes to understand the true inner workings of the machine — he sees through the language he’s working in and glimpses the secret functioning of the binary code — becomes a Ba’al Shem of sorts. // Neil Stephenson “Snow Crash”
- George E. P. Box’s statement that “essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.” G. E. P. Box, and N. R. Draper, Empirical Model Building and Response Surfaces (New York: Wiley, 1987).
- From RFC 2828 - Internet Security Glossary: hacker (I) Someone with a strong interest in computers, who enjoys learning about them and experimenting with them. (See: cracker.) (C) The recommended definition is the original meaning of the term (circa 1960), which then had a neutral or positive connotation of “someone who figures things out and makes something cool happen”. Today, the term is frequently misused, especially by journalists, to have the pejorative meaning of cracker.