Haskell, OCaml and their ilk are part of a 45-year-old static-typing movement within academia to try to force people to model everything. Programmers hate that. These languages will never, ever enjoy any substantial commercial success, for the exact same reason the Semantic Web is a failure. You can’t force people to provide metadata for everything they do. They’ll hate you.
— Steve Yegge, Stevey's Blog Rants: Portrait of a N00b
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[…] Sun seems to have some knobs that Amazon lacks.
— Ashlee Vance, The Register: Sun turns to Neil Diamond for Amazon utility 'killer'
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I don’t get the torture porn films[.] They’re lacking metaphor. For me the gore is always a slap in the face saying: ‘Wait a minute. Look at this other thing.’
— George A. Romero, Diary of the Dead (New York Times)
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Showing a user how popular his actions are is inevitably addictive.
— Joshua Schachter, joshua's blog: on url shorteners
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A woman’s love is like the morning dew. It’s as apt to land on a horse turd as it is a rose.
— Larry McMurtry, Leaving Cheyenne
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If you decide to run with the ball, just count on fumbling and getting the shit knocked out of you, but never forget how much fun it is just to be able to run with the ball.
— Jimmy Buffet, quoted in an open letter to Jeff Atwood
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I know that I got many things wrong in the run-up to the 2003 war, but, in spite of everything, I still do not know how to regret wanting to knock down the walls of the great concentration camp that was Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
— Kanan Makiya, What was the moral alternative to removing Saddam Hussein? - By Kanan Makiya - Slate Magazine
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A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.
— George Patton, George Patton quotes posted at 37Signals
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