Steve Yegge Quotes

• If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work.

  Steve Yegge

  Computer, Know How, Knows

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• Great programmers learn how to program their tools, not just use them.

  Steve Yegge

  Use, Tools, Program

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• Bezos is super smart; don't get me wrong. He just makes ordinary control freaks look like stoned hippies.

  Steve Yegge

  Smart, Hippie, Ordinary

  Steve Yegge (2012). “A Programmer's Rantings: On Programming-Language Religions, Code Philosophies, Google Work Culture, and Other Stuff”, p.368, Hyperink Inc

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• Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.

  Steve Yegge

  Games, Pieces, Java

  "Code's Worst Enemy". steve-yegge.blogspot.ru. December 19, 2007.

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• About half of all design patterns out there [...] appear to be ways take perfectly natural design ideas and twist them to fit into someones static type system: recipes for pounding square pegs into round holes

  Steve Yegge

  Ideas, Squares, Design

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• We don't have a Steve Jobs here. I'm sorry, but we don't.

  Steve Yegge

  Jobs, Sorry, I'm Sorry

  "Platforms, Not Products: A Googler's Hot-Mic Sound-Off On G+" by Tim Carmody, www.wired.com. October 12, 2011.

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