"The paradox of tolerance was described by Karl Popper in 1945. The paradox
states that if a society is tolerant without limit, their ability to be
tolerant will eventually be seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Popper came
to the seemingly paradoxical conclusion that in order to maintain a tolerant
society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance."
--
Wikipedia/Paradox_of_tolerance
"The only freedom the GPL restricts is your freedom to restrict the
freedom of others."
-- citace z /.
"Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the
first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will
you ever debug it?"
-- (Brian Kernighan)
"UNIX is user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are."
-- (citace z Internetu, autor neznámý)
"Those who don't understand UNIX are doomed to reinvent it, poorly."
-- Henry Spencer
"They that would give up essential liberty for a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely
unintentional side effect."
-- Linus Torvalds
"The fact that ACPI was designed by a group of monkeys high on LSD, and is
some of the worst designs in the industry obviously makes running it at
_any_ point pretty damn ugly. And the fact that MB vendors don't test it
with anything else than Windows (and sometimes you wonder whether they do
even that) doesn't help."
-- Linus Torvalds
"Never discuss with an idiot; people might be unable to get the difference
between you and him."
"Never discuss with an idiot, he'll just pull you down to his own level and
beat you with experience!"
-- (citace z Internetu, autor neznámý)
" Bojovat proti populistům je jako prát se s prasetem - oba se zašpiníte, ale
praseti se to líbí - přesto je to nutno udělat. Alternativou je být svědkem
likvidace demokracie, zatímco neučiníme nic."
-- (Jonathan Freedland ?)
"Politikům se nevěří, politikové se kontrolují. Věří se v Boha, věří se v přírodu, věří se v krásu, věří se v myšlenku, ideu. V politika se nevěří, a kdo v něho věří, je idiot!"
-- Karel Kryl, 1992
"Měli by se stydět všichni ti, kdo bezmyšlenkovitě používají divů vědy a
techniky a duševně z toho nepochopili víc než kráva z botaniky těch rostlin,
které s rozkoší požírá."
-- Albert Einstein
Citace z www.joelonsoftware.com týkající se knihy "The C Programming Language":
"One of the most misguided ideas in programming pedagogy is the idea that you have to seduce people into programming by starting with simple, fun, graphical stuff. Some people think that the best way to learn programming is to start with HTML, maybe, and then learn how to cut and paste some javascripts, and then move on. Another misconception is that you should start with a trendy, marketable programming skill like Java or Web Database Programming.
Well, those people are wrong.
For various reasons too complicated to go into here, I believe that you have to start programming at a level that is as close to the machine as reasonable. I think that this book, universally known as K&R, is THE book anyone who wants to be a programmer must learn first. Pick it up and work through it in detail. If you love every minute of it, you can be a programmer. If you find this old-school text programming stuff boring, or the pointer stuff drives you crazy, trust me, you're not going to like programming very much. If you need to be seduced into programming or if you don't have the patience to figure out what all those crazy asterisks mean, you're going to be happier doing something else. Really. But if you can make it through this book by yourself, you've got what it takes to be a top gun programmer, and you've got a terrific foundation for everything else you're going to learn."
