G™Umnikos Quotes

  • "if you don't invent a new technique then what you're making probably isn't new"

  • "fight only when you can win"

  • "you can both have lean and fast code, but you need to ascend to the N+1th dimension to unlock the ability to write it" - palai

  • "an architect's dream is an engineer's nightmare"

  • "the product of an artist is not the art, it's the idea it conveys"

  • "When you can't erase your own trail, leave as many false ones as possible"

  • "A jack of all trades is a master of none, but often times better than a master of one."

  • "When someone doesn't like your writing. They're often half right. You need to change what they don't like but do it YOUR way" - Bill Hader

  • "programmers aren't babies, they can simply write correct code" - umni after writing too much lua

  • "the duty of a man who investigates the writings of scientists is to make himself the enemy of all he reads"

  • "people who are rewarded for a task consistently do worse than those who expect nothing"

  • "sometimes the best way to fight the system is not to rebel but to exploit it"

  • "business people get really annoyed when you talk theory for more than 30 seconds. if you don't say "let x be money in dollars" then they start cutting you off" - umni

  • "when making something you're constantly making tiny choices, an author's voice is the consistency between those choices"