December 2010
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JavaScript is, without a doubt, the world’s most misunderstood programming...
– Douglas Crockford: The JavaScript Programming Language.
(via decodering)
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It may be that those who do most, dream most.
– Stephen Leacock, Canadian economist, writer and humorist
(read @JohnCMaxwell)
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Si no tenemos paz dentro de nosotros, de nada sirve buscarla fuera.
– François de la Rochefoucauld
(leído en @blogpocket)
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We are being afflicted with a new disease of which some readers may not yet have...
– John Maynard Keynes, “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money”
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
– Albert Camus
(via commanderspock)
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About Apple’s subtle language
Apple refers to its products grammatically as persons and not as objects.
If Steve Jobs is talking about an iPod, an iPhone or an iPad, he will say “iPhone does this” or “iPad does that”, instead of “the iPhone does this” and “the iPhone does that.” You would use the former version to refer to a person, and the latter to an object.
It’s extremely smart...
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
– George Bernard Shaw
(via libraryland)
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I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.
– Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
(via wyskrz)
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Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmers...
– Murphy’s Laws of Computing
This is something that we, programmers, are used to see quite often, unfortunately…
(source: PCWorld @ Facebook)
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In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
– George Orwell
(via moapp)
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