Nothing erodes [a mother's love]. It is not sand on a beach. It is the nuclear heart of things-hard as the rock of this earth.
My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.
But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.
Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to solve inherently complex problems, which often do require complex mechanisms. However, this should not diminish our desire for elegant solutions, which convince by their clarity and effectiveness. Simple, elegant solutions are more effective, but they are harder to find than complex ones, and they require more time, which we too often believe to be unaffordable
A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.
C++ is an insult to the human brain
A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.
Bigger brands like Shinola are capitalizing on what all of us small companies did. Shinola is just totally fake. It's a corporate entity that's taking advantage of what everybody else has done. They say it's all about made in U. S. , but one Wal-Mart hires more employees than their whole company.
Madness and genius are two sides to the same coin.
It's when you cry just a little, but you laugh in the middle that you've made it.
This is what I love about the Kimberley. . . wild gorges, fresh water and there's always a chance of a barra taking your lure.