📜 We tend to regret things we didn’t do over things we did do

We tend to regret things we didn’t do over things we did do. — Several different authors in Wisdom Trove Ask “What if?” and follow through…

June 5, 2024 · 1 min · 26 words

📜 Bad books

Life is too short to read a bad book. — James Joyce

December 20, 2023 · 1 min · 12 words

📜 How many bugs and wasted CPU cycles and instances of human frustration

How many bugs and wasted CPU cycles and instances of human frustration (not to mention bad design) have resulted from that one small shortcut about 40 years ago? Keep that in mind next time you want to cut a corner in your code. Rob Pike (via A lesson in shortcuts. Long ago, as the design of the Unix… )

December 11, 2013 · 1 min · 59 words

📜 You can measure a man’s character by the choices he makes under

You can measure a man’s character by the choices he makes under pressure Winston Churchill

July 4, 2013 · 1 min · 15 words