Quotes from Sander Soots

One principle duct tape programmers understand well is that any kind of coding technique that’s even slightly complicated is going to doom your project. Duct tape programmers tend to avoid C++, templates, multiple inheritance, multithreading, COM, CORBA, and a host of other technologies that are all totally reasonable, when you think long and hard about them, but are, honestly, just a little bit too hard for the human brain.

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Spring forward, fall back

Designing a product is keeping five thousand things in your brain and fitting them all together in new and different ways to get what you want. And every day you discover something new that is a new problem or a new opportunity to fit these things together a little differently.

And it’s that process that is the magic.

My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.

Over the long run, the tax burden would shift. Higher transactions taxes increase the cost of capital, ultimately lowering investment. With a lower capital stock, output would trend downward, reducing government revenues and substantially offsetting the direct gain from the tax. In the long run, wages would fall, and ordinary workers would end up bearing a significant share of the cost. More broadly, FTTs violate the general public-finance principle that it is inefficient to tax intermediate factors of production, particularly ones that are highly mobile and fluid in their response.

Vabaduse pahem pool on egoism ja ahnus. Õigluse pahem pool on jälle kadedus ja väiklus. Kui mul on valida, siis ma parema meelega ajaksin asju pigem ahne kui kadeda inimesega. Ahne inimene tahab midagi teha. Kade inimene põhimõtteliselt ei loo midagi juurde.

Everyone's a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.

If you are good at something, Never do it for Free.