* _"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 -- Main.JamesNoble - 22 Jun 2011