Tuesday, December 17, 2002

Quote of the Day Quote of the Day. "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." - George Bernard Shaw Link   Discuss [The .NET Guy] I went to a funeral last week. This quote is very relevant. 11:35:59 AM    comment []

Monday, September 30, 2002

Shakespeare translated in Regexp Hamlet as a HAX0R. Jason saw this on slashdot somewhere and sent it on: /(bb|[^b]{2})/ that is the Question [James Duncan Davidson] A pretty good one :-) 9:43:52 AM    comment []

Ken Arnold about the arrogance of taste in software design Taste and Aesthetics A Conversation with Ken Arnold, Part II, a very interesting interview of Ken Arnolds by Bill Venners where Arnold argues for the need for arrogance in software design, when backed by a strong sense of taste: To achieve simplicity, you sometimes have to say, "You think you want this, but you're not quite right." That is arrogance, the arrogance of taste I could not agree more, even if I have a hard time applying it to myself, being to uncertain about my sense of taste :-) 3:40:07 PM    comment []

G. K. Chesterton. "I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite." [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 1:17:41 PM    comment []