It’s the responsibility of programmers to make computers smarter, to expose more of their functionality to humans in intuitive ways, and not the responsibility of people to bend to the arbitrary demands of computers.
It’s a rally not a race.
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If you sprint everyday trying to do something that’s going to take a year, you are going to burn out.
– Merlin Mann
Procrastination
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Procrastination is what happens when you temporarily forget who you are, what you should pay attention to and what your options are for doing something about it.
– Merlin Mann
There’s no speed limit.
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“the standard pace is for chumps”
via There’s no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.) | Derek Sivers.
Advice From An Old Programmer
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Which programming language you learn and use doesn’t matter. Do not get sucked into the religion surrounding programming languages as that will only blind you to their true purpose of being your tool for doing interesting things.
via Advice From An Old Programmer — Learn Python The Hard Way, 2nd Edition.