* "if you don't invent a new technique then what you're making probably isn't new"
* "fight only when you can win"
* "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."
* "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"
* "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"
* "when making something you're constantly making tiny choices, an author's voice is the consistency between those choices"
* "if you're looking to sell solutions then all of your competition being flawed is something to be happy about"
* "the moment you become scared of refactoring is the moment the codebase starts to rot"