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Use it. Break it. File Bugs. Request features. Test, test, test. Test to the point it breaks.
So we need people to have weird new
ideas ... we need more ideas to break it
and make it better ...
Use it. Break it. File bugs. Request features.
- Soledad Penadés, Real time front-end alchemy, or: capturing, playing,
altering and encoding video and audio streams, without
servers or plugins!
von Braun believed in testing. I cannot
emphasize that term enough – test, test,
test. Test to the point it breaks.
- Ed Buckbee, NASA Public Affairs Officer, Chasing the Moon
Now watch. ..., this how science works.
One researcher comes up with a result.
And that is not the truth. No, no.
A scientific emergent truth is not the
result of one experiment. What has to
happen is somebody else has to verify
it. Preferably a competitor. Preferably
someone who doesn't want you to be correct.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson, May 3, 2017 at 92nd Street Y
It’s like they say, if the system fails you, you create your own system.
- Michael K. Williams, Black Market
1. If a (logical or axiomatic formal) system is consistent, it cannot be complete.
2. The consistency of axioms cannot be proved within their own system.
- Kurt Gödel, Incompleteness Theorem, On Formally Undecidable Propositions
of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems
In the real world, these just people with ideas
They just like me and you when the smoke and camera disappear
- Hip Hop, Dead Prez
One interesting note on this. Historically, I think the most widely used programming
linkages have come not from the programming language research committee, but rather
from people who build systems and wanted a language to help themselves.
- A brief interview with Tcl creator John Ousterhout
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