Archive for October, 2008

Is Programming exciting?

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Also, many a programmer derives a major part of his professional excitement from not quite understanding what he is doing, from the daring risks he takes and from the struggle to find the bugs he should not have introduced in the first place.

E.W. Dijkstra

Stockdale Paradox

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

“You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end – which you can never afford to lose – with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”