andreineculau’s most recent Quotables

If you don’t like me remember it’s mind over matter; I don’t mind and you don’t matter.

Every act of communication is an act of translation.

Why don't we just give Javascript in browsers an API to open up a socket and execute any protocol you like? Seriously

Software development is a knowledge acquisition activity, not a manufacturing activity.

Aim to displease everyone equally [...] Document Religiously [...] Perfection is unachievable, but try anyway

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

Praise in public; criticize in private.

The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man.

When a man wants your advice he generally wants your praise.

The typical project goes through 6 phases:

1. Enthusiasm
2. Disillusionment
3. Panic
4. Search for the Guilty
5. Punishment of the innocent
6. Praise and honor to the non-participants

The real damage is done by those millions who want to ‘survive.’

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

Believe in your f*cking self. [...] Work outside of your f*cking habits. Know when to f*cking speak up. f*cking collaborate. Don’t f*cking procrastinate. Get over your f*cking self. Keep f*cking learning. Form follows f*cking function. [...] Find f*cking inspiration everywhere. f*cking network. Educate your f*cking client. Trust your f*cking gut. Ask for f*cking help. Make it f*cking sustainable. Question f*cking everything. [...] Learn to take some f*cking criticism. Make me f*cking care. [...]

Democracy cannot rise above the level of the human material of which its voters are made.

Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.

This year is going to be like every other year. We’ll make promises to ourselves that we can’t keep. We say it’s a new start but it’s just like the year before. Once we mess up during the year, we can’t wait for the next so we can repeat that empty process. You don’t need a new year to change your life.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.