Early to rise and early to bed
makes a man healthy but socially dead
Нет людей, более практичных, чем дикари, ибо в их образовании заведомо не было фундаментальности, их заведомо никаким теориям не учили.
New programmers are often uncertain if they will ever be good enough. As we grow more experienced, we learn to relax in the total certainty that we’ll never be good enough.
Spotify didn’t implement the Spotify model by copying Spotify. Why do folks at other companies think they can implement the Spotify model by copying Spotify?
Much of bad design isn’t bad design — it’s work done without design. Somebody had to fulfill a commitment and there was no time to think or room to change course. The way companies make commitments is the first design problem. It constrains everything afterward.
Я постоянно представляю себе ситуации, в которых глухих, поверхностно относящихся и иронично-обесценивающе относящихся к теме en causa людей я пытаюсь убедить в полезности и ценности чего-то ценного в долгосрочной перспективе, многогранного и наблюдаемого как в плоскости архитектуры, так и в плоскости эстетики и интуиции. И частенько ввязываюсь в такие ситуации.
We tend to grossly overestimate the pleasure brought forth by new experiences and underestimate the power of finding meaning in current ones.
What happens if you pursue happiness through travel? It doesn’t work. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t travel! Just be aware: it’s not a solution to your existential despair. You’ll feel it anywhere you go. A new place just delays it. For a bit.
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: a complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work.
В технологии доминируют два типа людей: те, кто разбираются в том, чем не они управляют, и те, кто управляет тем, в чём они не разбираются.
Living in Russia, you learn to be constantly disappointed but not surprised