As builders and creators finding the perfect solution should not be our
main goal. We should find the perfect problem.
-- Isaac (blog comment)
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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)
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Simple things should be simple. Complex things should be possible.
-- Alan Kay
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C’s great for what it’s great for.
-- Ben Hoyts (micropledge)
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It’s hard to grasp abstractions if you don’t understand what they’re
abstracting away from.
-- Nathan Weizenbaum
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It is said that the real winner is the one who lives in today but able
to see tomorrow.
-- Juan Meng, Reviewing "The future of ideas" by Lawrence Lessig
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It's no trick for talented people to be interesting, but it's a gift to
be interested. We want an organization filled with interested people.
-- Randy S. Nelson (dean of Pixar University)
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its
victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under
robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's
cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated;
but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for
they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
-- C.S. Lewis
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Pay attention to opportunity cost at all times. Doing one thing means
not doing other things. This is a form of risk that is very easy to
ignore, to your detriment.
-- Marc Andreessen (http://blog.pmarca.com/)
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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are always cocksure and
the intelligent are always filled with doubt.
-- Bertrand Russell
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We are the sum of our behaviours; excellence therefore is not an act but
a habit.
-- Aristotle.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing
them.
-- Aristotle.
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So - what are the most important problems in software engineering? I’d
answer “dealing with complexity”.
-- Mark Chu-Carroll
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