Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.
– Linus Torvalds
Quotes
On small joys and happiness
Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
– Pearl S. Buck
On wisdom
You take the fruit of 40 years – hard lessons, mistakes – and you call it wisdom.
Source: Wag the Dog – Wikiquote
On “The End”
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.
On Rugby World Cup rules
Here is my understanding of how it works. The fat guys all run into each other, while the slightly slimmer guys stand in a line watching them. Eventually the fat guys get tired and have a lie down on top of each other. The ball comes out the back of this lie down and the skinnier guys kick it back and forward to each other for half an hour. Then the fat guys wake up and start running into each other again. Every now and again the referee stops play because someone dropped the ball. That’s the only thing you are not allowed to do in rugby. Everything else would appear to be okay. Sometimes one group of fat guys pushes the other group over the line and there is some manly hugging, but no shifting like in soccer. After 80 minutes they add up the score and New Zealand wins.