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People who are bred, selected, and compensated to find complicated solutions do not have an incentive to implement simplified ones.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
June 27, 2023 at 6:16 AM
The amount of imaginary problems a software engineer can create for themselves is a function of their imagination and of the difficulty of the real problems they’re supposed to solve.
~ https://cerebralab.com/Imaginary_Problems_Are_the_Root_of_Bad_Software
Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software
[Audio version (read by a tts bot)](https://youtu.be/9jODhmgkp3o) ![https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/De_Rebus_Bellicis%2C_XVth_
cerebralab.com
June 27, 2023 at 6:14 AM
Uncomfortable without a standard for right and wrong, the judgmental mind makes up standards of its own.
~ The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey
June 5, 2023 at 5:47 PM
Coding is not mechanical. If it were, all the CASE tools that people pinned their hopes on in the early 1980s would have replaced programmers long ago.
May 21, 2023 at 1:55 PM