Joe Hewitt on Competitiveness:
People say that money is the root of all evil, but I think that evil is rooted in competitiveness, and money is just the yardstick.
The whole thing is worth a read, but that sentence just stuck me.
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The Programmer, Like The Poet
So poetic in itself…
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
– Fredrick P. Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month (Ch. 1)