American Engineer Quotes

The Declaration of Independence states that all men are created equal, and in 1776, that's exactly what they meant. Women could not vote, women could not own property, and blacks were considered property. After 200 years of enlightenment, we have realized that gender and race are inappropriate distinctions for determining who has individual rights. Anytime Gov gives you permission they let you know that you have permission by giving you a permit or a license. If you have a marriage license, what permission do you have to do now that you did not have permission to do before, who gave you that permission, and who gave them the authority to give you that permission in the first place?

Michael Badnarik

The wonderful thing about dynamic typing is it lets you express anything that is computable. And type systems don't — type systems are typically decidable, and they restrict you to a subset. People who favor static type systems say it's fine, it's good enough; all the interesting programs you want to write will work as types. But that's ridiculous — once you have a type system, you don't even know what interesting programs are there.

One advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they have names.

The greatest risk we face in software development is that of overestimating our own knowledge.

Sometimes it is more difficult to formulate the criterion for a problem than to state the question itself.

Robert E. Machol

Like concepts such as national energy policy or war on drugs, competitiveness covers a lot of territory

Allen B. Rosenstein