“If your goal is to grow your business by delivering an application or service, dealing with the plumbing of an application is not what your users want to pay for.”
—-Tim Zonca.
Seth Klarman: Conservatism
“Conservatism may cause investors to refrain from making some investments that in hindsight would have been successful, but it will also prevent some sizable losses that would ensue from adopting less conservative business valuations.”
—Seth Klarman
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W H Auden: What all schoolchildren learn
“I and the public know / What all schoolchildren learn, / Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return.”
—W.H. Auden.
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David Foster Wallace: Familiarity
“It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most familiarity is meditated and delusive. “
—David Foster Wallace.
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Larry Tesler: Complexity
“You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you’ve reached that point, you can only shift the burden around.”
—Larry Tesler.
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Ansel Adams: Horrifying
“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”
—Ansel Adams.
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Larry Tesler: Irreducible complexity
“Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it, the user or the developer (programmer or engineer).”
—Larry Tesler.
