The Speed Of Light Sucks.

Everybody's Saturated With The Marketing Hype Of Next-generation Consoles. They Are Wonderful, But The Truth Is That They Are As Powerful As A High End Pc Is Right Now.

The Idea That I Can Be Presented With A Problem, Set Out To Logically Solve It With The Tools At Hand, And Wind Up With A Program That Could Not Be Legally Used Because Someone Else Followed The Same Logical Steps Some Years Ago And Filed For A Patent On It Is Horrifying.

I Like To Think I'm Pretty Good At What I Do.

In The Information Age, The Barriers [to Entry Into Programming] Just Aren't There. The Barriers Are Self Imposed. If You Want To Set Off And Go Develop Some Grand New Thing, You Don't Need Millions Of Dollars Of Capitalization. You Need Enough Pizza And Diet Coke To Stick In Your Refrigerator, A Cheap Pc To Work On, And The Dedication To Go Through With It. We Slept On Floors. We Waded Across Rivers.

You Can Prematurely Optimize Maintainability, Flexibility, Security, And Robustness Just Like You Can Performance.