Cynical software doesn’t even trust itself, so it puts up internal barriers to protect itself from failures. It refuses to get too intimate with other systems, because it could get hurt.
“It is amazing how often the reason you can't find a convincing explanation for something is because your conclusion is wrong.”
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“People tend to overuse any idea or concept that delivers an emotional kick.”
― Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
― Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
“When you say three things, you say nothing.”
― Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
― Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
“You want to invent new ideas, not new rules.”
― Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck
― Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck
“Closure is when a function is able to remember and access its lexical scope even when that function is executing outside its lexical scope.”
― You Don't Know JS: Scope & Closures
― You Don't Know JS: Scope & Closures
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