Владимир Гордеев

Консерватор это либерал, у которого есть внуки. Каждый имеет достаточно сил, чтобы достойно прожить жизнь. А все эти разговоры о том, какое сейчас трудное время, это хитроумный способ оправдать своё бездействие, лень и разные унылости. Работать надо, а там, глядишь, и времена изменятся. Лень —- это естественное следствие бессмысленности труда и отсутствия чёткой взаимосвязи между трудозатратами и вознаграждением То, что принято без доказательств, может быть отвергнуто без доказательств. --- if you're a man, who doesn't view life as war, you're going to lose The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools. Cheating doesn't scale. Find what you love, and let it kill you Architecture is a property of a system, not a description of its intended design. Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent. Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. Scars are proof that you are stronger than whatever tried to kill you. Tradition is not the worship of ashes but the preservation of fire. [about programming] no tolerance for the absurd idea that anyone completely knows what the fuck they’re doing If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious Live in the future, then build what's missing. If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against. Simplicity carried to an extreme becomes elegance. Erlang is like an exotic beautiful woman with no dressing sense. Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction. Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. Don’t give your customers what they ask for; give them what they want. If you don't run experiments before you start designing a new system, your entire system will be an experiment! A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing. Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.