{"id":964,"date":"2010-06-12T11:27:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T18:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/?p=964"},"modified":"2010-11-07T12:15:20","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T19:15:20","slug":"favorite-programming-quotes-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2010\/06\/12\/favorite-programming-quotes-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Programming Quotes 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

It took me some twenty-plus years to really learn how to program.
\nDHH<\/a><\/p>\n

Before you know it, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re half-way done with your idea and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve accidentally learned how to do it too. In short, you start with little bit of something real and make it tick. Then you make it tock.
\nDHH<\/a><\/p>\n

Facebook has been around for seven years. It has 500 million users. If you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t figure out how to make money off half a billion people in seven years, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to go out on a limb and say you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re unlikely to ever do.
\nDHH<\/a><\/p>\n

A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else.
\nDHH<\/a><\/p>\n

The most important technique, the most important competitive advantage we have at 37Signals is good human writing.
\nDHH<\/a><\/p>\n

Planning is not just guessing, it is harmful guessing, because it is a waste of time. All the time you spend doing your five year plan you can use to worry about tomorrow.
\nDHH<\/a><\/p>\n

Fear is ugly because it makes you irrational. Fear makes you jump to conclusions. Fear makes you reactionary.
\nDHH<\/a><\/p>\n

The first and most important thing about a product is making it easy to use and easy to get value right “out of the box.”
\nFred Wilson<\/a><\/p>\n

Our most interesting profits will come from capitalizing on huge opportunities, not from micromanaging costs.\u00c2\u00a0
\nPhilip Su<\/a><\/p>\n

What would you do if you hit the lottery?\u00c2\u00a0 How can you do some of that right now?
\nPhilip Su<\/a><\/p>\n

Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fear process.\u00c2\u00a0 Fear bad people dictating process.\u00c2\u00a0 Fear process trying to make up for bad people.
\nPhilip Su<\/a><\/p>\n

Jobs don’t scale. Whatever you do on your job, it will never bring you 4x or 8x or more money. Switching jobs might help, but I guess you will agree there’s a limit.
\nRoman Snitko<\/a><\/p>\n

Programmers aren’t born, they’re compiled.
\ndeadapostle<\/a><\/p>\n

Advertising is mind pollution.
\nJohn Leach<\/a><\/p>\n

Google Buzz is the new bright shiny spinning object destined to destroy my productivity. I don’t need any more of those. That’s the difference between Microsoft and Google in destroying productivity of able and willing people: Google uses carrots, Microsoft uses sticks.
\nRandal L. Schwartz<\/a><\/p>\n

Every time an engineer joins Google, a startup dies.
\nChris Dixon<\/a><\/p>\n

There is no movement without the first follower. See, we are told that we all need to be leaders but that would be ineffective. The best way to make a movement, if you really care, is to courageously follow and show others how to follow.
\nDerek Siver<\/a><\/p>\n

Google is a threat to everybody in the web space, to some extent. I supposed anyone can dream up some sort of a nightmare scenario where the whole might of Google pursues you as a individual business and it is game over but every entrepreneur lives under that threat.
\nAlex Algard<\/a><\/p>\n

Hate marketing is a very strong and powerful thing, especially in the internet, You can try as much as you want to get positive press but negative press is so much easier and so much more viral.
\nTimothy Sykes<\/a><\/p>\n

If I could make the same amount of money but wake up until when I can’t hold in my pee any longer, I will be a success.
\nPhil Kaplan<\/a><\/p>\n

When you have a company name that is to descriptive about what you do, you don’t stand out.
\nPhil Kaplan<\/a><\/p>\n

Don’t turn on monitization, typically, until it’s going to be significant.
\nPhil Kaplan<\/a><\/p>\n

The answer to the question “where do good ideas come from” is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.
\nSeth Godin<\/a><\/p>\n

So this engineer is converting the site from one that runs on a scripted language to one that runs on a compiled language. However, if you went to go talk to him about basketball, you would probably have the most awkward conversation you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d have with a human being in your entire life. You just can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t talk to these people on a normal level. If you wanted to talk about basketball, talk about graph theory.
\nAnonymous Facebook Engineer<\/a><\/p>\n

Lawyers can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tell you you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do something. They can warn you about risks, and in extreme cases tell you that something is such a bad idea you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll need to get someone other than them to do it but the judgment call of whether the risk is worth it is the entrepreneur\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s.
\nBram Cohen<\/a><\/p>\n

From pitch perspective, the more you wear your idea, the more it fits you and your comfortable with it, the easier it is for somebody like me to say tell me more.
\nBrad Feld<\/a><\/p>\n

We know from painful experience that letting a third party layer of software come between the platform and the developer ultimately results in sub-standard apps and hinders the enhancement and progress of the platform. If developers grow dependent on third party development libraries and tools, they can only take advantage of platform enhancements if and when the third party chooses to adopt the new features. We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers.
\nSteve Jobs<\/a><\/p>\n

Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales.
\nLarry Ellison<\/a><\/p>\n

The next time someone asks us for a favor, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re less likely to do it given how this turned out. Hopefully, if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the one asking, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll understand. I want to help you, really, but you may just be too stupid to accept it without threatening to sue me later. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll understand, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure. Right?
\nMichael Arrington<\/a><\/p>\n

I try to shrug it off as a minor annoyance that whenever I do something successful, every capitalist out there wants a piece of the action.
\nMark Zuckerberg<\/a><\/p>\n

Every application will be designed from the ground up to use real identity and friends.
\nMark Zuckerberg<\/a><\/p>\n

We are working hard to build a service that everyone, everywhere can use, whether they are a person, a company, a president or an organisation working for change
\nMark Zuckerberg<\/a><\/p>\n

By the way, what have you done that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so great? Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?
\nSteve Jobs<\/a><\/p>\n

The iPad makes using a computer less of a commitment and that has important implications for the way I compute.
\nFred Wilson<\/a><\/p>\n

A good enough first version will take longer to produce with $170K than it would have with $0K.
\nJason Fried<\/a><\/p>\n

You want attention after you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re good, not before. Obscurity is your friend when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just starting \u00e2\u20ac\u201d especially when you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even have a product yet.
\nJason Fried<\/a><\/p>\n

[I]n the history of computing, we know that its not the number of apps that make a platform, but the existence of “killer apps.” Whether it was VisiCalc, or Lotus 123, or PageMaker, or Microsoft Office, the truth is users don’t really want hundreds of apps, they want one or a small number that are really meaningful.
\nHank Williams<\/a><\/p>\n

Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
\nEdward V Berard<\/a><\/p>\n

Linux is only free if your time has no value
\nJamie Zawinski<\/a><\/p>\n

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.”
\nSeymour Cray<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It took me some twenty-plus years to really learn how to program. DHH Before you know it, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re half-way done with your idea and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve accidentally learned how to do it too. In short, you start with little bit of something real and make it tick. Then you make it tock. DHH Facebook has been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p902K-fy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/1165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}