Reads
A collection of quotes, passages, and ideas that have shaped my thinking.
The joy of discovery is one of the best things about being a software developer.
Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
— Oscar Wilde
The programmer has to be able to think in terms of conceptual hierarchies that are much deeper than a single mind ever needed to face before.
— Edsger Dijkstra, 1988
Things that are impossible just take longer than the things that are possible.
Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
We are each of us like our little blue planet, hung in black space, upheld by nothing but our mutual reassurances, our loving lies.
— John Updike, Rabbit at Rest
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
— William Shakespeare
Every great developer you know got there by solving problems they were unqualified to solve until they actually did it.
— Patrick McKenzie
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
— Martin Golding
Heroes who make enormous sacrifices for others are "inspiring," but when it comes to motivating real-world behavior, research shows that the best way to get people to do something good is to tell them that their neighbors are already doing it.
— Joshua Greene, Moral Tribes
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
— Steve Wozniak
The main point is that the only person who knows what a successful life looks like for you, is you.
The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.
— Marcus Aurelius
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
— Franz Kafka
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
— Franz Kafka
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
— Franz Kafka
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
— Franz Kafka
It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
— Albert Einstein
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
— Confucius
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
— Aristotle
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
— Confucius