Keith > Keith's Quotes

“Do you know a cure for me?"

"Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water."

"Salt water?" I asked him.

"Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
― Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales

“The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.”
― Frederick P. Brooks

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“I hate writing, I love having written.”
― Dorothy Parker

“If you like nerds, raise your hand. If you don't, raise your standards.”
― Violet Haberdasher

“Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.”
― Keith Bostic

“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live”
― John Woods

“A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.”
― Alan J. Perlis