Quotes

We could hardly get excited by an effect so feeble as to require statistics for its demonstration — Hubel & Weisel

Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is interesting. What they hide is essential.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler — Albert Einstein

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet — Albert Einstein

But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy — Plutarch

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love. — Pythagoras (attributed by Ovid)

Theory is when you know something, but it doesn’t work. Practice is when something works, but you don’t know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don’t know why.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. — Mahatma Gandhi

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it. — Clint Eastwood

There are only two industries that call their customers “users” – illegal drugs and software.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. — Niels Bohr

When a person immerses themselves in an activity so deeply that nothing else matters, the experience itself becomes so exciting that we want to carry on with the activity just for its sake. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Professionalism is all about taking responsibility — Bob Martin

Legacy code is code without tests — Michael Feathers

Clean code looks like it was written by someone who cares — Michael Feathers

On leadership: It does not matter who is in charge. What matters is who takes charge.

On entrepreneurship: market comes first, marketing second, aesthetics third and functionality a distant fourth — Rob Walling

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

I don’t always test my code but when I do, I do it in production!