Quotes by Philip Greenspun

Philip Greenspun

Although the Buddhists will tell you that desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to point the finger at system administration.

Buddhist

Roots

Suffering

Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration.

Collaboration

Pages

Saved

Even within traditional universities there has always been debate about whether it wouldn’t be better to focus on only one course at a time.

Debate

Focus

University

Everything that I’ve learned about computers at MIT I have boiled down into three principles: Unix: You think it won’t work, but if you find the right wizard, they can make it work. Macintosh: You think it will work, but it won’t. PC/Windows: You think it won’t work, and it won’t.

Principles

Thinking

Three

Frame is a good enough piece of software that there are actually rewards to taking an intelligent and formal approach to your problem. But if you want to be stupid, you can think of Frame as a version of Microsoft Word with most of the bugs taken out.

Stupid

Taken

Thinking

Greenspun’s Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

Bugs

Common

Half

I don’t myself believe in astrology. However, I think that’s because I’m a Libra and Libras are always skeptical.

Astrology

Believe

Thinking

If I’d had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn’t so I slapped it up on the Web.

Ideas

More Time

Novel

Like most people in Academia, my vision of the future is the same as the average industry person’s vision of five years ago.

Average

Visions Of The Future

Years

Most people who are rich chose their parents wisely.

Parent

People

Rich

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Astrology

Average

Believe

Book

Bored

Buddhist

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Collaboration

Common

Community

Debate

Devil

Focus

Gunshots

Half

Haskell

Icons

Ideas

Jobs

Language

More Time

Needs

Novel

Pages

Parent

People

Principles

Program

Python

Real

Remember

Rich

Roots

Saved

School

Self

Shoes

Smart

Stars

Strong

Stupid

Suffering

Support

Taken

Thinking

Three

Today

University

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Quotes by Philip Greenspun

Philip Greenspun

Although the Buddhists will tell you that desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to point the finger at system administration.

Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration.

Even within traditional universities there has always been debate about whether it wouldn’t be better to focus on only one course at a time.

Everything that I’ve learned about computers at MIT I have boiled down into three principles: Unix: You think it won’t work, but if you find the right wizard, they can make it work. Macintosh: You think it will work, but it won’t. PC/Windows: You think it won’t work, and it won’t.

Frame is a good enough piece of software that there are actually rewards to taking an intelligent and formal approach to your problem. But if you want to be stupid, you can think of Frame as a version of Microsoft Word with most of the bugs taken out.

Greenspun’s Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

I don’t myself believe in astrology. However, I think that’s because I’m a Libra and Libras are always skeptical.

If I’d had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn’t so I slapped it up on the Web.

Like most people in Academia, my vision of the future is the same as the average industry person’s vision of five years ago.

Most people who are rich chose their parents wisely.

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