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“The crisis of yesterday is the joke of to-morrow.”
— Herbert George Wells
Would an AI have religion?
“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.”
— Dennis Ritchie
“The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning, but imagination.”
— Augustus De Morgan
Never emulate objects using arrays or lists or any other data structure; it gets real messy real fast.
When you have a problem, try to solve it; but when you have many problems of the same nature, solve one and then automate the solution.

Don't just solve problems, solve classes of problems.
“I hate mysteries, they bug me. They need to be solved.”
— Felicity Smoak
“[Design] is not just what it looks like and feels like; design is how it works.”
— Steve Jobs
“Debugging is like being the detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer.”
— Filipe Fortes
“A bug is never just a mistake. It represents something bigger. An error of thinking that makes you who you are.”
— Elliot, Mr. Robot
“After logic we must proceed to philosophy proper. Here too we have to learn from our predecessors, just as in mathematics and law. Thus it is wrong to forbid the study of ancient philosophy.”
— Averroes
If properties were fully abstract, and objects were comprised entirely out of properties, then all objects and by extension, all apps, would be cross-platform.
If your Tea is not Sweet, mix-in Sweetness and it will become Sweet.
Every call, denoted by a callable, has a qualified caller, a callable callee, and a number of arguments.
“Anything that can be reached with a ladder does not interest me.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
alias Body(dimension) as connected graph of Spatial(dimension)
“The 'physical' does not mean any particular kind of reality, but a particular kind of denoting reality, namely a system of concepts in the natural sciences which is necessary for the cognition of reality. 'The physical' should not be interpreted wrongly as an attribute of one part of reality, but not of the other; it is rather a word denoting a kind of conceptual construction, as, e.g., the markers 'geographical' or 'mathematical', which denote not any distinct properties of real things, but always merely a manner of presenting them by means of ideas.”
— Moritz Schlick
“We suppose, it would seem, that concepts grow in the individual mind like leaves on a tree, and we think to discover their nature by studying their growth; we seek to define them psychologically, in terms of the human mind. But this account makes everything subjective, and if we follow it through to the end, does away with truth.”
— Gottlob Frege
“The function of logical analysis is to analyse all knowledge, all assertions of science and of everyday life, in order to make clear the sense of each such assertion and the connections between them. One of the principal tasks of the logical analysis of a given proposition is to find out the method of verification for that proposition.”
— Rudolf Carnap
“Man proposeth, God disposeth.”
— George Herbert

The idea of garbage collection in the 16th century.