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Upgrading

Posted in: (Quotes) By ikki on 2009-08-09 17:49:29.125807

"Upgrade when you have the time to deal with changes, don't upgrade when you don't"


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"Actualiza cuando tengas el tiempo para lidiar con cambios, no actualices cuando no."


-- Krystof on #lisp

I must invent my own system.

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2009-01-30 17:25:16.949291

"I must invent my own system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create."

"Tengo que inventar mi propio sistema o ser esclavizado por otro hombre. No voy a razonar y comparar: mi negocio es crear."


-- William Blake.

To build a successful business

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2008-05-08 17:38:13.123549

"Want to make a fast buck?
Go to Vegas.

Want to build a successful business?
Treat your customers like gold, not just a quick sale."

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¿Deseas hacer dinero rápido?
Ve a Las Vegas.

¿Deseas construir un negocio exitoso?
Trata a tus clientes como el oro, no sólo como una venta rápida.

--- DebtKid

Make it work

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-12-01 16:51:38.609829

"I am pleased that history recognizes the first to invent something, but I am more concerned with the first person to make it work."

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"Me complace que la historia reconozca al primero que inventa algo, pero estoy mas interesada en la primer persona que lo hace funcionar"

--- Grace Hopper

The hardest road

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-11-20 09:52:47.796527

"Following the hardest road, which is not as hard as the easiest one. I learnt from the trolls and dwarves and people. Even from pebble."

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"Siguiendo el camino más duro, que aún así no es tan duro como el camino más fácil. Aprendí de los trolls y los enanos y las personas. Hasta de los guijarros."

---Lords and Ladies, Terry Pratchett

All the consequences

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-09-18 17:45:19.939156

If a man was stopping to consider all the consequences of his acts before acting, it would become an old man without having tackled not even a damned action.

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Si un hombre se parara a considerar todas las consecuencias de sus actos antes de actuar, llegaría a viejo sin haber emprendido ni una maldita acción.

--Mafio Polo to His nephew Marco Polo, on "The Journeyer" Novel of Gary Jennings

Winners are willing to do

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-07-27 16:05:03.086776

Winners are simply willing to do what losers won't.

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Los ganadores simplemente estan dispuestos a hacer lo que los perdedores no.

--Inspirational poster in the Hit Pit

The way is in trainning...

Lisp Usefulness

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-07-14 19:20:06.02808

Please don't assume Lisp is only useful for Animation and Graphics, AI, Bioinformatics, B2B and E-Commerce, Data Mining, EDA/Semiconductor applications, Expert Systems, Finance, Intelligent Agents, Knowledge Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling and Simulation, Natural Language, Optimization, Research, Risk Analysis, Scheduling, Telecom, and Web Authoring just because these are the only things they happened to list.

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Por favor, no suponga que Lisp solo es util para animación y gráficos, IA, Bioinformatica, B2B y comercio electrónico, mineria de datos, EDA/Semiconductores, sistemas expertos , finanzas, CAD Mecánico, modelado y simulación, lenguaje natural, optimización, investigación, análisis de riesgo, calendarización, telecomunicaciones, y autoría Web solo porque esas son las únicas cosas que son listadas.

-- Kent Pitman

More thinking

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-06-30 11:51:41.033378

"SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing."

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"SQL, Lisp y Haskell son los únicos lenguajes de programación, en los que yo he visto que uno pasa mas tiempo pensando que escribiendo."

- Philip Greenspun

Incidentally

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-06-30 11:44:31.452862

"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."

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"Los programas deben escribirse para que la gente los lea, y solo incidentalmente para que las máquinas los ejecuten."

-- Abelson & Sussman, SICP, preface to the first edition

Cause of the future

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-06-30 11:35:37.940034

"People often find it easier to be a result of the past than a cause of the future."


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"A menudo, las personas encuentran más fácil ser un resultado del pasado que una causa del futuro"

--Anonymous

The memory of man

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-06-30 11:29:40.413376

"The glory and the memory of man will always belong to the ones who follow their great visions.

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"La gloria y la memoria de la humanidad siempre le perteneceran a aquellos que siguen sus mas grandes visiones"

-- Ptolemy (On the movie: "Alexander")

Stupid is

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-06-30 11:28:10.53934

"Stupid is as stupid does"

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"Tonto es el que hace tonterías."

-- Forrest Gump

Chef

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-06-30 11:12:12.489245

"You want to work in Lisp, they want PHP ... does one go work at McDonalds when aiming to be a chef?!

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"Tú quieres trabajar en Lisp, ellos quieren PHP... ¡¿acaso va uno a trabajar a McDonalds cuando pretende ser un Chef?!


--- Drew Crampsie
comp.lang.lisp

There is no try

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-06-30 11:10:16.314171

"Do or do not. There is no try."

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"Hazlo o no lo hagas. Intentar no existe"

-- Master Yoda

We must do

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-06-30 11:08:19.456349


"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."
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"He sido impreso con la urgencia de hacer. Saber no es suficiente; debemos aplicar. Querer no es suficiente; debemos hacer"

-- Leonardo Da Vinci

An Expert

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-06-30 11:06:38.90502


"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a very narrow field."
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"Un experto es un hombre que ha cometido todos los errores posibles, en un campo muy estrecho"

-- Niels Bohr

Fail better

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-06-30 11:05:11.22426

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."

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"Todo intentado. Todo fallado. No importa. Intenta de nuevo. Falla de nuevo. Falla mejor."

-- Samuel Beckett

Citizen of the world

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-06-30 10:35:43.086361

"I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

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"No soy un Ateniense, tampoco un Griego, sino un ciudadano del mundo"


-- Socrates

Red pill

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-06-30 10:34:01.389088

"Lisp is the red pill."

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"Lisp es la pildora roja"


-- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp

Sacred cows

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-06-30 10:32:33.514466

Sacred Cows Make Gourmet Burgers

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La vacas sagradas proporcionan excelentes bisteces

Don't let school

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-06-30 10:31:08.041563

"Dont let school interfere with your education. "

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"No permitas que la escuela interfiera con tu educación"


--Mark Twain

Invent it

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-06-30 10:29:07.64266

"Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

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"No te preocupes acerca de lo que alguien mas vaya a hacer. La mejor manera de predecir el futuro es inventarlo."


-- Alan Kay

Day dreamer

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-06-30 10:27:32.223575

"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible."

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"Todos los hombres sueñan: pero no de igual manera. Aquellos que sueñan por la noche en el polvoso receso de sus mentes,despiertan al dia siguiente para encontrarse que todo fue  vano: pero los soñadores de dia son hombres peligrosos, porque ellos pueden actuar en sus sueños con los ojos abiertos, para hacerlos posibles.

---T.E. Lawrence

Tolerance and education

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-06-30 10:25:59.205878

"The highest result of education is tolerance."

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"El logro culminante de la educación es la tolerancia."

--Helen Keller

Reorganizing

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-06-30 10:24:15.621268

"We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization."

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 "Entrenamos muy duro, pero parecía que cada vez que empezabamos a lograr integrar equipos, surgia la necesidad de reorganizarnos. Aprendería,  mas tarde en mi vida, que tendemos a enfrentar las nuevas situaciones mediante la reorganización, y que eso puede ser un gran método para crear la ilusión de progreso, mientras que produce confusión, ineficiencia y desmoralización."

-Gaius Petronius, 1st Century AD

Voluntarily program in Java

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-06-30 10:21:09.879158

"Of all the great programmers I can think of, I know of only one who would voluntarily program in Java. And of all the great programmers I can think of who don't work for Sun, on Java, I know of zero."

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"De todos los grandes programadores en los que puedo pensar, conozco sólo de uno quién programaría voluntariamente en Java. Y de todos los grandes programadores en los que puedo pensar, que no trabaje para Sun , en Java, no conozco a ninguno que programaría voluntariamente en Java"

--Paul Graham

Become a monster

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-06-30 10:18:29.764393

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he    doesn't become a monster."

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"Quienquiera que luche contra monstruos debe tener cuidado de que en el proceso no se convierta el mismo en un monstruo." 

---Friedrich Nietzsche

Again...

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-06-30 10:13:34.966036

"I had to install Lisp in a Box and start working through Seibel's new book on Common Lisp until my brain started functioning again"

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Tengo que instalar Lisp in a Box y comenzar a trabajar con el nuevo libro de Siebel en Common Lisp hasta que mi cerebro comience a funcionar otra vez.

--Joel Spolsky

 

Reinvent Lisp

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-06-30 10:11:10.56722

Those who do not know Lisp are doomed to reinvent it, poorly, anoint it with a buzzword and call it new and improved.

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Aquellos que no conocen Lisp estan condenados a reinventarlo, pobremente,ungirlo con un termino tecnico y llamarlo nuevo y mejorado

Lisp Buddha

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-06-30 10:08:40.169578

Schemer: "Buddha is small, clean, and serious."

Lispnik: "Buddha is big, has hairy armpits,and laughs."

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Schemer: "Buda es pequeño, limpio y serio"

Lispnik:"Buda es grande,  tiene axilas peludas, y ríe."

About inventions

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-06-30 10:05:46.506511

As we enjoy great advantages from inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously."

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"Así como nosotros disfrutamos de los grandes beneficios de los inventos de otros, deberíamos alegrarnos de tener la oportunidad de servir a otros por medio de cualquier invención nuestra; y esto deberíamos hacerlo de manera libre y generosa"

-- Benjamin Franklin

The stuff of life

Posted in: (Quotes) By Erick on 2007-06-30 09:58:51.104427


"Do you love Life?, then do not squander Time, for that's the Stuff Life is made of."

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"¿Amas la vida? Entonces no desperdicies el tiempo porque es la sustancia de que esta hecha."

--Benjamin Franklin