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Sunday, April 01, 2007
Effing A!
I think a lot of people get too serious in their lives and stop trying to do something cool. I mean come on, we’re taking man-made machines that traditionally speak ones and zeros, but we write code in a sexy language and some stuff happens.
THAT'S SO COOL!!
If that’s not your reaction, you shouldn’t be a programmer.
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean... So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Christopher Reeve, 1952 – 2004
You think, “I could sit at a desk and poke at a computer all day.”
I forget there is a desk, what day it is,
or that my chair's been broken since I started here.
Always have a vision. Why spend your life making other people’s dreams?
Orson Welles 1915 – 1985
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Yes.
That's one of the reasons I love reading _why; reading him reminds me that I do love this stuff, that writing code is creative expression, and that building something that works is rightly full of joy.
That's one of the reasons I love reading _why; reading him reminds me that I do love this stuff, that writing code is creative expression, and that building something that works is rightly full of joy.
"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
-- St. Francis de Assisi
-- St. Francis de Assisi
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