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Quote: The wrong things are wrong

mx — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:32:22 +0000

So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard. –37Signals

QOTW: Anecotes != Data

mx — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:27:44 +0000

Remember: the plural of “anecdote” is not “data.” – Hacker News comment

Quote: writing is hard for writers too

mx — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:53:14 +0000

“I have an idea that’s so pure & clear in my mind but is crap written out and no way to improve it. Writing frustrates me like nothing else.” – Kottke

Quote: Don’t do it

mx — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:36:10 +0000

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. –Peter Drucker

Jobs on design

mx — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:17:11 +0000

It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. –Steve Jobs

QOTW: On training employees

mx — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:27:20 +0000

Better to train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay. –anon

QOTD: Sugary code

mx — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:25:23 +0000

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon –via

Quote: Models and truth

mx — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:31:24 +0000

Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. – George Box

Quote: ignoring your audience

mx — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:23:12 +0000

I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away. - Wall-E creator Andrew Stanton

Quote: 2 types of languages

mx — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:43:41 +0000

There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses. –Bjarne Stroustrup

Quote: John von Neumann on understanding maths

mx — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:55:01 +0000

In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them. – J. von Neumann

Quote: Jobs on Bliss

mx — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:41:02 +0000

You think it’s a conspiracy by the networks to put bad shows on TV. But the shows are bad because that’s what people want. It’s not like Windows users don’t have any power. I think they are happy with Windows, and that’s an incredibly depressing thought. – Steve Jobs on “suck”

Cory simplifies the suck of stats, or why 99% isn’t as good as you think it is

mx — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:12:05 +0000

Imagine that you’ve got a disease that strikes one in a million people, and a test for the disease that’s 99% accurate. You administer the test to a million people, and it will be positive for around 10,000 of them – because for every hundred people, it will be wrong once (that’s what 99% accurate means). Yet, statistically, we know that there’s only one infected person in the entire sample. That means that your “99% accurate” test is wrong 9,999 times out of 10,000! – Cory Doctorow

Quote: C3PO on trust

mx — Wed, 21 May 2008 03:35:24 +0000

The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer! – C-3PO

Quote: Raymond on Artists and programming

mx — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:11:47 +0000

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. –Eric Raymond