So The Pirate Bay has executed the Web 2.0 business plan to perfection: give someone else's stuff away for free - then find a bigger idiot to buy the company.

[...] in the case of Web 2.0, companies go from "pre-revenue" to "post-revenue" without any revenue in between. That's where you need a bigger idiot.

So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated.

When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls

[...] a good programmer cultivates the virtue of laziness. (But not just any laziness: you must be aggressively, proactively lazy!)

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

[...] as we all know, premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

I always assumed the designers of the Objective-C language and Cocoa frameworks trust me to know what I'm doing while I find very elegant ways to shoot myself in the foot.

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

You know it's Monday when you wake up and it's Tuesday.

Out of the darkness a voice spoke unto me, saying "smile, things could be worse". So I smiled, and so, things became worse.

What can run but never walks,
Has mouth but never talks,
Has a bed but never sleeps,
Has a head but never weeps?

Lords and Ladies

"Much human ingenuity has gone into finding the ultimate Before.
The current state of knowledge can be summarized thus:
In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded"
- Terry Pratchett