tilton_utf8_crlf.txt - clic - Clic is an command line interactive client for gopher written in Common LISP
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            1 Programmers who lock onto a design decision and cling to it in the face of
            2 contradictory new information -- well, that's almost everyone in my
            3 experience, so I better not say what I think of them or people will start
            4 saying bad things about me on c.l.l.
            5    -- Ken Tilton
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            7 This reminds me of the NYC cabby who accepted a fare to Chicago. When
            8 they got there and could not find the friend who was supposed to pay the
            9 fare he just laughed and said he should have known.
           10    -- Ken Tilton
           11 %
           12 >> Actually, I believe that Aikido, Jazz and Lisp are different appearances
           13 >> of the same thing.
           14 Yes, the Tao. /Everything/ is a different appearance of the tao.
           15    -- Ken Tilton
           16 
           17 "Ken, I went to the library and read up on Buddhism, and believe me, you
           18 are no Buddhist."
           19    -- Kenny's mom
           20 %
           21 That absolutely terrifies the herd-following, lockstep-marching,
           22 mainstream-saluting cowards that obediently dash out or online to
           23 scoop up books on The Latest Thing. They learn and use atrocities like
           24 Java, C++, XML, and even Python for the security it gives them and
           25 then sit there slaving away miserably, tediously, joylously paying off
           26 mortgages and supporting ungrateful teenagers who despise them, only
           27 to look out the double-sealed thermo-pane windows of their
           28 central-heated, sound-proofed, dead-bolted, suffocating little nests
           29 into the howling gale thinking "what do they know that I do not know?"
           30 when they see us under a lean-to hunched over our laptops to shield
           31 them from the rain laughing our asses off as we write great code
           32 between bong hits.... what was the question?
           33    -- Ken Tilton
           34 %
           35 Shut up! (That last phrase has four or more syllables if pronounced as
           36 intended.)
           37    -- Ken Tilton
           38 %
           39 Nonsense. You'll be using it for the GUI, not protein-folding.
           40    -- Ken Tilton
           41             (responding to a comment that LTK was slow because it
           42              was based on TK)
           43 %
           44 Continuations certainly are clever, but if we learned anything from the
           45 rejection of the cover art for "Smell the Glove", it is that "there is a
           46 fine line between stupid... and clever".
           47    -- Ken Tilton
           48 %
           49 Ah, there's no place like academia for dispassionate, intellectually
           50 honest discussion of new ideas on their merits. Thank god for tenure
           51 giving your bold antagonist the protection they needed to shout down
           52 your iconoclastic..... hang on...
           53    -- Ken Tilton
           54 %
           55 Whoever objected must be in my killfile, ...
           56    -- Ken Tilton
           57 %
           58 From memory (but I think I have it right):
           59 
           60 "But Jesus said, Suffer captured variables, and forbid them not, to come
           61 unto thine macro bodies: for of such is are DSLs made."
           62    -- Ken Tilton
           63 
           64 Can I get an Amen?
           65 %
           66 Awareness of defect is the first step to recovery.
           67    -- Ken Tilton
           68 %
           69 You made a bad analogy (there are no good ones, but you found a new
           70 low) ...
           71    -- Ken Tilton
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           73 Yes, it is true that Kent Pitman was raised by a closet full of Lisp
           74 Machines, but the exception only proves the rule.
           75    -- Ken Tilton
           76            (in a postscript after positing that computer
           77             languages are not learned in infancy)
           78 %
           79 I suggest you try bartender's school to support yourself, start
           80 programming for fun again.
           81    -- Ken Tilton
           82            (responding to a comment that 98% of anything to do
           83             with computers was not interesting code)
           84 %
           85 You could add four lanes to my carpal tunnel and I still could not
           86 write all the code I am dying to write.
           87    -- Ken Tilton
           88 %
           89 Neutrality? I want to bury other languages, not have a gateway to them.
           90    -- Ken Tilton
           91 %
           92 Ken: "Cute puppy. Did you get it for companionship or to pick up chicks?"
           93 Simon: "Hunh? My puppy /always/ gives me companionship."
           94    -- Ken Tilton
           95            (on how he was understood by a native english speaker)
           96 %