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"We have no mom-and-pop oil rigs in Norway."
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Erik NaggumAll experience has taught us that solving a complex problem uncovers h — Erik Naggum
"All experience has taught us that solving a complex problem uncovers hidden assumptions and ever more knowledge, trade-offs that we didnt anticipate but which can make the difference between meeting a deadline and going into research mode for a year, etc."
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Erik Naggum was a Norwegian computer programmer recognized for his work in the fields of SGML, Emacs and Lisp. Since the early 1990s he was also a provocative participant on various Usenet discussion groups.
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"This is your brain. This is Perl. This is your brain on Perl. Any questions?"
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"C++ is a language strongly optimized for liars and people who go by guesswork and ignorance."
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"Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer."
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"People search for the meaning of life, but this is the easy question: we are born into a world that presents us with many millennia of collected knowledge and information, and all our predecessors ask of us is that we not waste our brief life ignoring the past only to rediscover or reinvent its lessons badly."
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"Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you cant easily express complex problems in C, so you dont."
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