Programming wisdom and quotes throughout the years. The Knuth, the whole Knuth, and nothing but the Knuth, so help me Codd.
In the ALU on an 80186
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And here's the earliest Wayback Archive version of his site (which predated the Wayback Archive, to be fair): web.archive.org/web/19961114…
"I have a computer that I can talk to — it doesn’t answer me. I never had any luck with computers. I went out and bought an Apple computer. There was a worm in it." – Rodney Dangerfield
In early 1995, Rodney was the first celeb to personally own a website and create content for it.
"Why do I have six monitors? Because I don't have room for eight." – Terry Pratchett (1948-2015)
ALT Terry Pratchett
Taken from this epic TypeScript Origins documentary just released on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=U6s2pdxe…
"Overnight success takes 30 years." – Sophie Wilson (early designer of the ARM instruction set and lead developer of BBC BASIC) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie…
41 years ago this week (in December of 1980) @Apple's initial public offering went live.
It was the biggest IPO since the Ford Motor Company went public back in 1956. The stock opened at $22 a share — all 4.6 million sold in record time. 💵
Dijkstra was a highly influential Dutch programmer, mathematician, and pioneer in the computer science space.
Learn more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger…
ALT Portrait photograph of Edsger Dijkstra, taken in 2002. The subject is wearing a white shirt, and brown jumper, he is also wearing spectacles.
