It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but read. It's the best, because it does the least. It doesn't even show a clock.
Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is not a great fit for me.
If you sit on, sleep on, stare at, or touch something for more than an hour a day, spend whatever it takes to get the best.
Writing your own blog platform is like roasting your own coffee: it's impractical and you probably shouldn't do it, but for people who really, truly care about it, it's worthwhile to them for their own personal priorities that sound crazy to everyone else. Well, I write my own blog platform and I roast my own coffee.
Microsoft loves losing money with online services, so this should stay free forever. . . unless they get a new CEO who isn't crazy about pouring billions into a hole.
Attention to detail can't be (and never is) added later. It's an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture.
I am really good about compartmentalizing and treating my family as one thing and the show or whatever my job as a secondary thing.
You learn to run like a sprinter, you'll be a great distance runner
People are just obsessed with other people's lives. I don't know whether it's kind of a way to escape their own, or something to follow I really couldn't tell you.
That's what life is, it's the small struggles. You walk down the street for half an hour, you see half an hour of drama. You don't need convoluted plot lines. You don't need long-lost brothers. You don't need it's set on the future; it's set on the moon.