If you want to reuse (or test) a functional banana, you don’t have to set up a stateful gorilla to hold the banana first.
Schlagwort: Programmieren
Fjuncgle.
Symbolanguage.
A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.
Programess.
Getting a different compiler error is progress.
someone on elmtown
Bricks and Clicks.
Notions of originality (being at the origin of) and even of creation (making something from nothing) are slowly blurred in this new cultural landscape marked by the twin figures of the DJ and the programmer, both of whom have the task of selecting cultural objects and inserting them into new contexts.
Nicolas Bourriaud: Postproduction, quoted in The Lego Movie: Constructing and Reconstructing Identity by Grace Lee.
Embarressearch.
The good thing about being an academic: you are allowed to be embarrassed.
You can just say: That's the way it is and we'll figure it out eventually.
Simon Peyton-Jones: Escape from the ivory tower: the Haskell journey (around 32:55)