Tag: Quote of the Week

Double Positive = Negative

A linguistics professor was lecturing to her class one day. “In English,” she said, “A double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative.”

A voice from the back of the room piped up, “Yeah . . .right.”

Source: http://www.enginesofmischief.com/makers/evan/humor/doublenegative.html

Why Programming is Difficult

There are three other things that make programming difficult:

  • Fixing things that should not be broken
  • No time for learning things
  • Bad environment for programming

Let’s look at these things – these are all “time thieves”

— Joe Armstrong explains what makes programming difficult.

“I’m a chicken.”

– Fun?!? … Pinkie Pie, you’re a genius!
+ No, I’m not. I’m a chicken. B‘gawk!

This piece from the “Luna Eclipsed” episode cracked me up. 😀 Sometimes you have to wonder how people come up with these dialogs. In this instance it fit so perfectly … especially with the build-up towards that point … genius!

It even allows to link to my favorite Wikipedia article. 😉