Words of Wisdom (10.19.09)

Written on October 19th, 2009 by
  • Selling a 1080p television to an elderly person wearing bifocals is like selling uggs to a war veteran with no legs
  • “Compliance compensates for times when normal market forces fail to provide adequate alignment of interests. For example, when organizations in a position to protect data aren’t responsible for the losses.” – Courtesy of Jeremiah Grossman
  • Java is the current latin of programming languages
  • Preparing code to change is a lot harder than making the first change without thinking about it
  • When building onto a bad system, trying to do things right only makes everything more complicated
  • The Unix terminal tab auto-complete feature is the best auto-complete implementation in existence. More systems need to mimic its functionality.
  • Programming languages should never use single characters (e.g. $, @, %) to signify data types or other information about variables.
  • Programming in pajamas or sweats is 100x more productive than programming in business attire.
  • Some people draw ugly pictures because they cannot envision beautiful pictures.
  • Some people write ugly programs because they cannot envision beautiful programs.