jeudi 30 juin 2011

Words of Wisdom 1

Some “words of wisdom” I found during my peregrination in the “World of Books”


  • Every thing should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler – Einstein
  • Seek Simplicity and distrust it – Alfred N. Whitehead
  • Our life is frittered away by details. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity – Henry D. Thoreau
  • There are no small change in a large system – unknown
  • KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid (or Keep It Simple as Stupid)  - unknown
  • Fools ignore complexity, pragmatic suffer it, some avoid it, genius remove it – Alan J Perlier
From Foundation of Computer Science


A one I like: "If something must go wrong, it’ll go wrong" – Murphy’s laws
and one from an ex-boss : "A programmer must think to unthinkable" – Willy Kalamba