## Some quotations A few quotations that could be used on this site. * Joshua of Nazareth """ Ἐγὼ δὲ λέγω ὑμῖν μὴ ἀντιστῆναι τῷ πονηρῷ· ἀλλ’ ὅστις σε ῥαπίσει ἐπὶ τὴν δεξιάν σου σιαγόνα, στρέψον αὐτῷ καὶ τὴν ἄλλην. (But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.) """ * Joshua of Nazareth """ Πάντα οὖν ὅσα ἂν θέλητε ἵνα ποιῶσιν ὑμῖν οἱ ἄνθρωποι, οὕτως καὶ ὑμεῖς ποιεῖτε αὐτοῖς· οὗτος γάρ ἐστιν ὁ νόμος καὶ οἱ προφῆται. (Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.) """ * Joshua of Nazareth """ If a Roman soldier demands that you carry his pack for one mile (ἀγγαρεύσει) then carry it for two. """ * saying """ The man proposes, the woman disposes. """ * mjb at nomlang.org """ Write code that even dumb people can understand, because, even if you don't realise it, you are one. """ * mjb at nomlang.org """ Dumb people write code that only geniuses can understand. Smart people write code that dumb people can understand. """ * Strange fact """ The so-called inventor of Artificial Intelligence and the Lisp language (John McCarthy) voted for George W. Bush """ * Charles Moore (Forth inventor) """ There is no reason for an operating system. It is a non-thing. """ * Charles Moore (Forth inventor) """ I'm never bored by simplicity. """ * Ivan Illich """ School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age. """ * Saying """ It is better to learn from a book than from a computer. It is better to learn from a person than from a book. It is better to learn from experience than from a person. """ * Ivan Illich """ The machine-like behavior of people chained to electronics constitutes a degradation of their well-being and of their dignity. """ * Saying """ Life is not a competition, and dying is not losing. """ * Saying """ If you want to heal your eyes, look at the clouds. """ * A Question """ Did you forget to walk barefoot on the grass? """ * Australian wisdom """ If you can use a boomerang, then don't use a bow and arrow. If you can use a stick, then don't use a boomerang. """ * "Why" or The Hobix site author """ If you've heard of XML, then let it go. """ * The Pogues """ They've got cars big as bars They've got rivers of gold But the wind goes right through you It's no place for the old """ * Van Morrison, "Sweet Thing" """ And I will never grow so old again. """ * Leonard Cohen """ Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? """ * Scouts Lore """ Its better to know a knot and not need a knot than to need a knot and not know a knot. """ * Irish saying """ As poor as a king without a poet. """ * A Question """ What is a name? A reference. What is more real: the world or the story-world? """ * Warlpiri Saying """ The men give kuyu (meat) to the women and the women give miyi (vegetables) to the men. This is reciprocity. """ * Cadaques Jordi """ Why is the sun (le soleil) masculine and the moon (la lune) feminine? Because they married each other and they belong together even though they are opposites. """ * Kogi Saying """ By weaving, we maintain the order of the universe. """ * Kogi Saying """ If you want to learn how to do something, then watch the animals and insects, and learn from them. """ * An Anecdote """ Alexander the Great: What wish can I grant you? Diogenes: Stand out of my light. """ * Buddist saying """ Eat when you are hungry, drink when you are thirsty """ * Sign in a park in a Michael Leunig cartoon """ No walking baby nephews in the park """ * Michael Leunig """ Life is but a wobble board, shaking with a spooky noise, all of us so deeply flawed, made of miseries and joys. """ * Leunig cartoon """ If you see something strange and unusual, enjoy it while you can. """ * Groucho Marx, when the audience rushed outside to look at a donkey. """ That is the last of a long series of straws. """ * "Dumb and dumber" """ When you tell a story, try to have point! """ * Indian saying """ In America people drive on the right side of the road, in England they drive on the left. In India, it is optional. """ * Chief Seattle """ My words are like the stars that never change. """ * Saying """ Without plumbers, civilization might only last a few months. Without computer programmers, it would be fine. """ * Daoist saying. """ The purpose of a bowl is exactly where it is not. """ * The Dragon Book (Compilers etc) - approximate quote """ A compiler is a program that translates an input language into an output language. """ * mjb at nomlang dot org """ Any nom translation script can translate itself to create the same translator in a different language. This translated translator can then translate the nom translator, and so on. """ * The Rolling Stones """ You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you can get what you need. """ * Kev Carmody """ The cleverman spoke precisely, humanity he said was done It’s creed of greed could not proceed if our struggle’s to be won. """ * Saying """ The cat can look at the king. """ * Saying """ If you are going to fall anyway, jump! """ * Spanish Untranslatable Saying of great profundity. """ Que nos quiten lo bailao """ * Seinfeld """ Smart is the dumb person's word for intelligent """ * Colombian saying """ Nobody knows who they are working for. """ * Spanish saying """ En casa del herrero, cuchillo de palo. (In the blacksmith's house, the spoon is wooden) """ * mjb at nomlang.org, world-leading expert in nom, and hobby programmer """ This is how you learn a language: listen carefully, repeat faithfully, express freely. """ * Colombian saying """ The monkey knows which tree it is climbing up. """ * Saying """ Everything comes to its end at exactly the right moment, including us. """ * Spanish saying """ Knowledge does not occupy space. """ * Spanish saying """ A lier is found out before a lame person. """ * African saying """ You can't wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep. """ * Napoleon """ Fortune is like a woman: if you reject her today, do not expect to meet with her tomorrow. """ * Admiral Nelson, in a letter to his lover. """ I can think of nothing but you and that French fleet. """ * Woody Allen """ Do you like my watch? Its a family heirloom. My grandfather sold it to me on his death bed. """ * Mjb at nomlang.org """ Computers have no practical purpose. But they can be interesting toys that show us what is not important. """ * Truism """ The only thing that you will remember, are your walks. """ * Truism """ If a computer can do it, then it doesn't matter. """ * Silly Joke """ Question: How can you tell a pilot at a party? Answer: He'll soon tell you. """ * Trueism """ Grammar is the syntax of the universe. """ * Jeff Atwood, somewhere on his blog """ No programmer, at the end of his life, wishes he had spent more time in front of a computer. """ * Jeff Atwood, somewhere on his blog """ Writing a blog changed my life. """ * Chuck Moore, inventor of the incomparable Forth system """ Our civilization is going to collapse under the weight of its own complexity. """ * Robert Nystrom, author of "Crafting Interpreters", somewhere on his blog """ Most compilers for commonly used languages are, as far as I know, recursive descent. """ * Antonio Machado """ Traveller, there is no path. You make the path as you walk. Traveller, there is no path. Your tracks are the path, and when you look behind, you will see the road that never again you will traverse. Traveller, there is no path, just the wake that is left in the sea. """