"Companies come and go but you only get one reputation". - David Sifry
Source: to Doc on the phone
Good Web 2.0 sites follow the Unix design model: do one thing well, and play well with others. - Evan Prodromou
Source: http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2006/110906-web20-openid.html
Coding up the simplest thing that could possibly work is really about this: If you can't keep five things in your head at one time and make a decision, try keeping three things in your head. Try keeping just one thing in your head, and see if you can make a decision. Then you can think of the next thing. And amazingly, when you write some of this dumb, straight-ahead code, it often turns out that it was all that was required. It works great. When a second programmer comes back later and reads the code she might say, "The people who wrote this are morons. They just wrote a simple linear search here. This thing's ordered, so they could have done a binary search. They could have used a hash table here. Why are they doing a linear search?" Well, because a linear search worked. And when the other programmer looked at the linear search, she understood it in a minute. - Ward Cunningham
- Source: http://www.artima.com/intv/simplest3.html
(Note... use that one or this one...)
A friend of mine once said that there are problems and there are difficulties. A problem is something you savor. You say, "Well that's an interesting problem. Let me think about that problem a while." You enjoy thinking about it, because when you find the solution to the problem, it's enlightening.
And then there are difficulties. Computers are famous for difficulties. A difficulty is just a blockage from progress. You have to try a lot of things. When you finally find what works, it doesn't tell you a thing. It won't be the same tomorrow. Getting the computer to work is so often dealing with difficulties.
The complexity that we despise is the complexity that leads to difficulty.
- Ward Cunningham
Source: http://www.artima.com/intv/simplest.html
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." - Winston Churchill
Source: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/winstonchu135270.html