Subversion: the most pointless project ever

At least, that’s what he said…

When I say I hate CVS with a passion, I have to also say that if there any SVN users in the audience, you might want to leave. Because my hatred of CVS has meant that I see Subversion as being the most pointless project ever started, because the whole slogan for the Subversion for a while was “CVS done right” or something like that. And if you start with that kind of slogan, there is nowhere you can go. It’s like, there is no way to do CVS right.

Linus Torvalds

From his Git talk in Google last year, a really good one.

Complexity

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Alan Perlis, computer scientist (1922-1990), first recipient of the Turing Award

Which group do you belong in?

Dancing pigs

Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time

Edward Felten

Who doesn’t?. This isn’t just a funny quote, this’s reality.

Abstracciones imperfectas

All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky

Joel Spolsky

Ideas abstractas

Las ideas generales y abstractas son fuente de los más grandes errores humanos.

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Filósofo francés.

Últimamente no se me ocurren cosas para escribir en el blog que merezcan la pena ser leídas, siempre que pueda evitaré poner tonterías, que para eso ya tenemos /^.*$/. Tú me entiendes ;).

¿Crítico o artista?

Cuando los críticos de arte se juntan, hablan sobre la forma, la estructura y el significado. Cuando los artistas se juntan, hablan sobre dónde comprar trementina barata.

Pablo Picasso (Artista, 1881-1973)

(La trementina es un disolvente de pinturas y barnices)

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