"If you don't have the right abstractions, you can make things artificially difficult." - Joe Armstrong "How long will people continue believing in the myth of

"If you don't have the right abstractions, you can make things artificially difficult." - Joe Armstrong "How long will people continue believing in the myth of the 15-year-old hacker genius while simultaneously decrying the unreliability of software before the cognitive dissonance finally cracks?" - Dave Herman (http://calculist.blogspot.com/2005/12/12-weeks-with-geeks.html http://calculist.blogspot.com/2005/12/12-weeks-with-geeks.ht...) Also, there are quite a few at cat-v (http://quotes.cat-v.org/programming/ http://quotes.cat-v.org/programming/).