American Stance: Everything not forbidden is permitted. Prussian Stance: Everything not permitted is forbidden. Mark Jason Dominus More Quotes by Mark Jason Dominus More Quotes From Mark Jason Dominus I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library. Mark Jason Dominus library immortality book In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now at anyone who tries to invent a language without recursion. Mark Jason Dominus laughing people years The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope. Mark Jason Dominus size computer names Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work. Mark Jason Dominus heuristics fancy way A few months ago I was visiting my mother, and she said that as a child I had always wanted to learn everything, and that it took me a long time to realize that you couldn't learn everything. I got really angry, and I shouted "I'm not done yet!" Mark Jason Dominus mother long children
