Erik Naggum Quotes - Page 4

Quotes about:

• Contrary to the foolish notion that syntax is immaterial, people optimize the way they express themselves, and so express themselves differently with different syntaxes.

  Erik Naggum

  People, Different, Syntax

  "S-exp vs XML, HTML, LaTeX (was: Why lisp is growing)". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. December 12, 2002.

  5 Copy quote

• Elegance is necessarily unnatural, only achieveable at great expense. If you just do something, it won't be elegant, but if you do it and then see what might be more elegant, and do it again, you might, after an unknown number of iterations, get something that is very elegant.

  Erik Naggum

  Numbers, Might, Elegance

  "Filk, puns, and other time wasting". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. October 25, 1998.

  4 Copy quote

• The very word "exist" derives from "to step forth, to stand out".

  Erik Naggum

  Steps, Standing Out

  "Lisp advocacy misadventures". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. October 26, 2002.

  4 Copy quote

• People search for the meaning of life, but this is the easy question: we are born into a world that presents us with many millenia of collected knowledge and information, and all our predecessors ask of us is that we not waste our brief life ignoring the past only to rediscover or reinvent its lessons badly.

  Erik Naggum

  Past, People, Meaning Of Life

  "Knowledge and Information". naggum.no. February 6, 1996.

  4 Copy quote

• Norway did not even have a revolution at the time the rest of Europe was busy figuring out human rights and stuff, because we were busy fighting over how to spell it.

  Erik Naggum

  Fighting, Rights, Europe

  21 Copy quote

Page 4 of 4

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin