Quotes of the Week: (from Haskell Digest, Vol 41, Issue 1)
* cjeris: It's amazing what some languages do to make thinking
impossible, seemingly justified by the assumption that no one
thinks anyway, so it's more important to make non-thinking
programming as easy as possible.
You may be interested in the following quotes:
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947):
"It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copybooks and
by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should
cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise
opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the
number of important operations which we can perform without
thinking about them."
[Example: compare long division with Roman numerals and Arabic numerals]
Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle--they
are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and
must only be made at decisive moments."
Joe Stoy:
"If you want to reduce ... design time, you have to stop thinking
about something you used to have to think about."
Nikhil
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