#Nix

Some standards are sound and indispensable; some simply celebrate bureaucratic littleness of mind.

attributed to Doug McIlroy, “The Hideous Name,” Rob Pike and P.J. Weinberger, 1985

it’s ironic that in the tech industry, despite all the talk of “disruption”, this notion of creative destruction is largely absent, and we’ve consigned ourselves to the grooves of local optimum established thirty years ago

Paul Chiusano

Don’t underestimate the power of survival of the fittest. And don’t EVER make the mistake that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That’s giving your intelligence much too much credit. Linus Torvalds You have to choose, you’re not going to get it all so you better decide what you want the most and aim at that. [Read More]