if we are going to have to teach everyone something new, we might as well do it right.
Lingua franca
Protocol
the real standards are what’s in the wild, and that what’s happening in the wild is an order of magnitude more insane than you can imagine.
Motor Booty Affair (1978)
The art of creating is not just pushing a button.
Bernie Worrell, RIP
Real Genius
If Sun had found a way to bill for every interface implemented and every use of the singleton pattern they would have been the ones buying Oracle.
"Intelligence and effort combined at their best" (1946)
Luck is the residue of design.
Branch Rickey, cited by Jonathan Eig, Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season, Simon & Schuster, 2007, p23.