One of the ultimate things a human can learn is kindness for their fellow humans
Teaching peers is one of the best ways to develop mastery.
You can achieve a shallow local maximum with AB testing - but you'll never win hearts and minds.
In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer's shifting idea of what their problem is.
We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users.
Writing code? That's the easy part. Getting your application in the hands of users, and creating applications that people actually want to use - now that's the hard stuff.
If you don't have people that care about usability on your project, your project is doomed.
It is not all darkness in a heart which can cry, "My God".
You've never in your life seen a picture, I bet any one of you, never seen a picture of one of these old Pilgrims praying when they didn't have a gun right by the side of them. That was to see that he got what he was praying for.
As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while.
Mr. Brooks and I have been friends forever. He is in seventh heaven with his new success on Broadway.