Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.
We must not forget that the wheel is reinvented so often because it is a very good idea; I've learned to worry more about the soundness of ideas that were invented only once.
Copy and paste is a design error.
One bad programmer can easily create two new jobs a year.
When someone builds a bridge, he uses engineers who have been certified as knowing what they are doing. Yet when someone builds you a software program, he has no similar certification, even though your safety may be just as dependent upon that software working as it is upon the bridge supporting your weight.
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers.
There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the world, in fact). It's almost as if the act of photography bears some relationship to how we consciously manage the uncontrollable set of possibilities that exist in life.
Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
One might reasonably wonder whether any amount of failed results would cause liberals to reevaluate the wisdom - and even fairness - of their proposals.
I'm not really good at hiding pain or taking something and transforming it into something good.