Kerning refers to the adjustment of spacing between characters in a proportional font. If you didn't get it right away - take a look at the cartoon again.
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I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.
-Bjarne Stroustrup (developed C++)
Efficiency stems more from good design than from good coding.
- Robert L. Glass
More computing sins are committed in the name of [execution] efficiency (often without achieving it) than for any other single reason, including blind stupidity.
- W.A.Wulf
Focusing too heavily on optimization techniques often results in code that is difficult or impossible to understand and maintain.
- Eric M. Burke
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
- George Bernard Shaw
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Bjarne Stroustrup (developed C++)
Efficiency stems more from good design than from good coding.
- Robert L. Glass
More computing sins are committed in the name of [execution] efficiency (often without achieving it) than for any other single reason, including blind stupidity.
- W.A.Wulf
Focusing too heavily on optimization techniques often results in code that is difficult or impossible to understand and maintain.
- Eric M. Burke
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
- George Bernard Shaw
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The wonderful thing about standards is that we have so many of them to choose from.
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