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“Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.”
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“I'd argue that everybody wants to do something that matters”
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“Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.”
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“I'm a bastard. I have absolutely no clue why people can ever think otherwise. Yet they do. People think I'm a nice guy, and the fact is that I'm a scheming, conniving bastard who doesn't care for any hurt feelings or lost hours of work if it just results in what I consider to be a better system.
And I'm not just saying that. I'm really not a very nice person. I can say 'I don't care' with a straight face, and really mean it.”
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And I'm not just saying that. I'm really not a very nice person. I can say 'I don't care' with a straight face, and really mean it.”
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“Don't ever make the mistake [of thinking] that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence much too much credit.”
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