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“I think we have a resistance right now because we have a lot of old guys who grew up resisting an enemy too strong to ever beat. They’ve been inoculated against fear of failure. But when they’re gone, I think we’re done.
“It has to become second nature, for a programmer, to notice when a concept is begging to be abstracted into a new word.”
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“A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write.”
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“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
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“Higher-order functions allow us to abstract over actions, not just values.”
― Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming
― Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming
“That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?”
― The Storyteller
― The Storyteller
Brian’s 2025 Year in Books
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