From: Bill Atkins
Subject: Re: The Ken Tilton CLL fortune file (Summer/Fall 2006)
Date:
Message-ID: <m2u02l5uqi.fsf@bertrand.local>
Madhu <·······@net.meer> writes:
> Programmers who lock onto a design decision and cling to it in the face of
> contradictory new information -- well, that's almost everyone in my
> experience, so I better not say what I think of them or people will start
> saying bad things about me on c.l.l.
> -- Ken Tilton <·············@newsfe09.lga>
> %
> This reminds me of the NYC cabby who accepted a fare to Chicago. When
> they got there and could not find the friend who was supposed to pay the
> fare he just laughed and said he should have known.
> -- Ken Tilton <··············@fe09.lga>
> %
>> Actually, I believe that Aikido, Jazz and Lisp are different appearances
>> of the same thing.
> Yes, the Tao. /Everything/ is a different appearance of the tao.
> -- Ken Tilton <················@fe08.lga>
>
> "Ken, I went to the library and read up on Buddhism, and believe me, you
> are no Buddhist."
> -- Kenny's mom. <··············@newsfe12.lga>
> %
> That absolutely terrifies the herd-following, lockstep-marching,
> mainstream-saluting cowards that obediently dash out or online to
> scoop up books on The Latest Thing. They learn and use atrocities like
> Java, C++, XML, and even Python for the security it gives them and
> then sit there slaving away miserably, tediously, joylously paying off
> mortgages and supporting ungrateful teenagers who despise them, only
> to look out the double-sealed thermo-pane windows of their
> central-heated, sound-proofed, dead-bolted, suffocating little nests
> into the howling gale thinking "what do they know that I do not know?"
> when they see us under a lean-to hunched over our laptops to shield
> them from the rain laughing our asses off as we write great code
> between bong hits.... what was the question?
> -- Ken Tilton <···················@newsfe09.lga>
> %
> Shut up! (That last phrase has four or more syllables if pronounced as
> intended.)
> -- Ken Tilton <···············@newsfe11.lga>
> %
> Nonsense. You'll be using it for the GUI, not protein-folding.
> -- Ken Tilton <···············@newsfe08.lga>
> (responding to a comment that LTK was slow because it
> was based on TK)
> %
> Continuations certainly are clever, but if we learned anything from the
> rejection of the cover art for "Smell the Glove", it is that "there is a
> fine line between stupid... and clever".
> -- Ken Tilton <·················@newsfe08.lga>
> %
> Ah, there's no place like academia for dispassionate, intellectually
> honest discussion of new ideas on their merits. Thank god for tenure
> giving your bold antagonist the protection they needed to shout down
> your iconoclastic..... hang on...
> -- Ken Tilton <···············@fe12.lga>
> %
> Whoever objected must be in my killfile, ...
> -- Ken Tilton <···················@newsfe09.lga>
> %
> From memory (but I think I have it right):
>
> "But Jesus said, Suffer captured variables, and forbid them not, to come
> unto thine macro bodies: for of such is are DSLs made."
> -- Ken Tilton <··············@fe11.lga>
>
> Can I get an Amen?
> %
> Awareness of defect is the first step to recovery.
> -- Ken Tilton <················@fe09.lga>
> %
> You made a bad analogy (there are no good ones, but you found a new
> low) ...
> -- Ken Tilton <··················@newsfe08.lga>
> %
> Yes, it is true that Kent Pitman was raised by a closet full of Lisp
> Machines, but the exception only proves the rule.
> -- Ken Tilton <··················@newsfe08.lga>
> (in a postscript after positing that computer
> languages are not learned in infancy)
> %
> I suggest you try bartender's school to support yourself, start
> programming for fun again.
> -- Ken Tilton <·················@newsfe09.lga>
> (responding to a comment that 98% of anything to do
> with computers was not interesting code)
> %
> You could add four lanes to my carpal tunnel and I still could not
> write all the code I am dying to write.
> -- Ken Tilton <·················@newsfe09.lga>
> %
> Neutrality? I want to bury other languages, not have a gateway to them.
> -- Ken Tilton <···············@fe09.lga>
> %
> Ken: "Cute puppy. Did you get it for companionship or to pick up chicks?"
> Simon: "Hunh? My puppy /always/ gives me companionship."
> -- Ken Tilton <·············@newsfe10.lga>
> (on how he was understood by a native english speaker)
> %
"Argument from analogy! I love these. they are just like... seedless grapes? "
-- Ken Titlon