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Arrival to Earth / Scorponok - Midian’s Trance Remix -
David Heinemeier Hansson at Startup School 08 -
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Robert A. Heinlein (via Wikiquote)
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A conversation I have every month or so
Website: Website: Take a look at our menu! It’s a PDF of a screenshot of a scan of a Word document printed on a dishtowel. With fonts!
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[Computing is] a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you’re any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.
Alan Kay in 1972
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Twitter Code Swarm on Vimeo -
Even in an increasingly interconnected world, there is much to be said in favor of isolation and solitude. For those of a creative bent of mind, much of our work is done behind closed doors, to be revealed only when ready. Our work is our testament to the ages and all that will remain when we are gone. It is not who we are, but what we do that defines us. And though the company of friends can be comforting and relaxing it can also all too often become distracting and demotivating. Only with solitude, isolation and total immersion in the task at hand does one enter a State of Flow, becoming one with the problem and ultimately finding the solution. The ultimate challenge for the creative mind is to find the balance between the peaks of genius in solitude and the nourishing stream of ideas that only comes with connection with other minds. It is a quest that can be tiring, draining, futile and possibly even rewarding.
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If you’ve never written anything thoughtful, then you’ve never had any difficult, important, or interesting thoughts. That’s the secret: people who don’t write, are people who don’t think.
The secret about writing that no one has the balls to tell you by Pete Michaud
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Information R/evolution