Simplify

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery more…

The First and Second Laws of Programming

The First Law of Programming   Don’t. Instead, see if someone has already written a version of the program that you can adapt. If not, see if someone has written a program like what you need that you can adapt. The Second Law of Programming   If you do, do it right.   If no one […] more…

Socrates: Writing is a Crutch

Writing… will implant forgetfulness in their souls… telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them… filled, not with wisdom but with the conceit of wisdom… a burden to their fellows. Socrates to Phaedrus: ‘…Theuth invented number and calculation, geometry and astronomy, not to speak of draughts and dice, and above all […] more…
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