That is one of the most distinctive differences between school and the real world: there is no reward for putting in a good effort. In fact, the whole concept of a "good effort" is a fake idea adults invented to encourage kids. It is not found in nature. -- Paul Graham
Abstraction is a form of data compression: absolutely necessary, because human short-term memory is so small, but the critically important aspect of abstraction is the algorithm that gets you from the name back to the "uncompressed" details. -- Bruce Wilder (blog post comment)
The problem is that small examples fail to convince, and large examples are too big to follow. -- Steve Yegge.
The only thing a man should ever be 100% convinced of is his own ignorance. -- DJ MacLean
Two people should stay together if together they are better people than they would be individually. -- ?
Being a programmer is the same way. The only way to be a good programmer is to write code. When you realize you haven't been writing much code lately, and it seems like all you do is brag about code you wrote in the past, and people start looking at you funny while you're shooting your mouth off, realize it's because they know. They might not even know they know, but they know. So, yes, doing what you love brings success, and by all means, throw yourself a nice big party, buy yourself a nice car, soak up the adulation of an adoring crowd. Then shut the fuck up and get back to work. -- Sincerity Theory
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon
What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable. ~Anonymous