Matteo Crippa's Blog (7)

Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
- Edward V. Berard

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification — the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.

Karl Popper - The Open Universe.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

Albert Einstein - Letter to his son Eduard.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

Steve Jobs - A comment he made in persuading John Sculley (Pepsi CEO) to become Apple's CEO

How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?

Edsger W. Dijkstra