* "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"