Category: English
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Who to write code for?
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. — SICP, preface to the 1st edition.
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To become an architect
To become a member of the community of architects requires an ability to learn to view the world as an architect and to use architect’s tools in a professional way. This can happen only by observing and interacting with experienced architects within the context of a studio. — Ilkka Tuomi, Internet, innovation and OpenSource: Actors…
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The new
The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends. — Anton Ego, Ratatouille.
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Chairs and motivation
Get a good chair, because you can’t always be motivated, and sometimes you have to sit on it until you’re done. — The grandfather of a colleague, who had a work ethic that I share.
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Architecture astronauts
When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. — Joel Spolsky, Don’t let architecture astronauts scare you.
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Make something well
To learn to make something well can take your whole life. And it’s worth it. — Ursula K. Le Guin.
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Change and irrelevance
If you dislike change, you’re going to dislike irrelevance even more. — Eric Shinseki. Heard to Ann Dunwoody, Automattic Grand Meetup 2018.
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The UNIX way, resurfaced
Make it work, make it right, make it fast. — The UNIX way, resurfaced decades later by Kent Beck.
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Two small jumps
It seems to be much easier to make two small jumps than the one big jump in any kind of mental thinking. — Creative Thinking at Bell Labs (1952), Claude Shannon.
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Vaccine for fuzzy thinking
Objectives are like a vaccine for fuzzy thinking. — John Doerr, Why the secret to success is setting the right goals.
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The magician’s assistant
Review of Ann Patchett’s book, the Reading Club assignment for January 2019.
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They came like swallows
A review of William Maxwell’s book, the Reading Club assignment for November 2018.
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Scratch Map Summer 2018
After some epic trips in the past years, this is what our scratch map looks like by the end of 2018 Summer. Antarctica is in our todo list.