Quotes

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” – Douglas Adams

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat… Read More »Choices and Sacrifices

“There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.” – Various

“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” – Walt Whitman

“Don’t repeat yourself.” – Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmer

“A picture is worth a thousand words.” – Various

“I would prefer not to.” – Bartleby, the Scrivener, Herman Melville

“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.” – Fight Club (1999 Film)

“In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” – Andy Warhol

“Even a prodigious reader never has access to more than an infinitesimal fraction of the books that exist.” – Pierre Bayard, How to Talk about… Read More »Limitations of Reading