Meeting One Quotations

• "You always have the choice of making things more complicated, or making things more simple"
  • Dave Ungar, channeling Tony Hoare

• "Synchronization is the next goto"
  • Dave Ungar

• "When I was in the corporate world, my manager told me every presentation had to have a chart with two axes, and your system is here" (points to extreme top right of the graph)
  • William Cook

• Q: Why is there a notion of Primitive Type
• A: I just decided there would be
  • William "Enso" Cook

• Protobuffers are JSON for enterprise use
  • Jan-Willem Maessen

• "We get lots of c**p suggestions"
  • Program Manager for Major Programming Language, Redmond, WA

• "Types are anti-modular"
  • Gilad Bracha

• "You cannot read the code without looking at the class definition"
• "This file is just 44K"
  • Dan Ingalls on Smalltalk-72

• "There's something fundamental I don't understand
  • Andrew Black

• "You are a type guy or something, man!"
  • Robby Findler

• "What happens next is that nothing makes sense any more"
  • Alex Warth

• "'Underlying Abstract Problems' are for people whose concrete solutions are rubbish"
  • Some Guy from NZ

• "Semantics doesn't move fast enough for language evolution"
  • Dave Herman

-- JamesNoble - 22 Jun 2011