Optimization is generally detrimental to future success, but it is the only way to accomplish present success in competition with others who are equa…

- Erik Naggum

Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems in C, so you don…

- Erik Naggum

Unfortunately, nigh the whole world is now duped into thinking that silly fill-in forms on web pages is the way to do user interfaces.

- Erik Naggum

Gotos aren't damnable to begin with. If you aren't smart enough to distinguish what's bad about some gotos from all gotos, goto hell.

- Erik Naggum

In Norway, we have a community of people who prefer to use a version of Norwegian that looks very much like lutefisk: Dug up remains from the garbage…

- Erik Naggum

That's why the smartest companies use Common Lisp, but lie about it so all their competitors think Lisp is slow and C++ is fast.

- Erik Naggum

Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable … I am not one of those people. If I had a …

- Erik Naggum

it's just that in C++ and the like, you don't trust anybody, and in CLOS you basically trust everybody. The practical result is that thieves and bums…

- Erik Naggum

It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.

- Erik Naggum