Category Archives: Quotables

From an article in the 1/21/08 issue of Fortune, talking about the Fed. “They ought to go back to the days when it was more of a delphic oracle. The problem with transparency is that people see through it“

Now see, if you had run this in the debugger the problem would have been blindingly obvious immediately. — Mike Ash Overheard in IRC.  More than one developer has burned an afternoon trying to “read” his code to find a bug that is actually a side effect of some lower level kit.  This was in [...]

Ditherati: See the Digerati Dither, Daily Ditheratri is one of my favorite sources of amusing quotes from the tech industry.  A while back they went all-quiet.  Now they are back.  Just in time for all the great iPhone quotes! Followup: Shortly after I posted it went dark once again…..