I think that a lot of programmers are ignoring an important point when people talk about reducing code repetition on large projects. Part of the idea is that large projects are intrinsically *wrong*. That you should be looking at making a number of smaller projects that are composable, even if you never end up reusing one of those smaller projects elsewhere. -- Dan Nugent
La haine est une liqueur précieuse, un poison plus cher que celui des Borgia, - car il est fait avec notre sang, notre santé, notre sommeil, et les deux tiers de notre amour! Il faut en être avare! -- Charles Baudelaire, Conseils aux jeunes littérateurs.
Sometimes a man with too broad a perspective reveals himself as having no real perspective at all. A man who tries too hard to see every side may be a man who is trying to avoid choosing any side. A man who tries too hard to seek a deeper truth may be trying to hide from the truth he already knows. That is not a sign of intellectual sophistication and "great thinking". It is a demonstration of moral degeneracy and cowardice. -- Steven Den Beste
Give up control. You never really had it anyway. -- How to fail: 25 secrets learned through failure
The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out. -- Donald Norman
I think there’s a world market for about 5 computers. -- Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM, circa 1948
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker
Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown
I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. ~Martha Stewart