
The romantic image of an über-programmer is someone who fires up Emacs, types like a machine gun, and delivers a flawless final product from scratch. A more accurate image would be someone who stares quietly into space for a few minutes and then says “Hmm. I think I’ve seen something like this before.”
— Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity
Posted December 23, 2009 by Benton Barnett

As an opening move, I prefer asking because telling implies they have nothing to add.
— Rands
Posted December 23, 2009 by Benton Barnett

Should technology ever permit humans to download our brains’ mental images to a hard drive, every last teenager in America will wind up prohibited from living within 10,000 feet of themselves.
– Leave ‘Sexters’ Alone! – Page 1 – The Daily Beast
Posted December 22, 2009 by Benton Barnett

Achievement — Who cares if you win by yourself?
– Rands
Posted December 14, 2009 by Benton Barnett

Therein lies the best career advice I could possibly dispense: just DO things. Chase after the things that interest you and make you happy. Stop acting like you have a set path, because you don’t. No one does. You shouldn’t be trying to check off the boxes of life; they aren’t real and they were created by other people, not you. There is no explicit path I’m following, and I’m not walking in anyone else’s footsteps. I’m making it up as I go.
– Charlie Hoehn
Posted December 11, 2009 by Benton Barnett

America is now a one-party state. The one party is the Establishment party, which is also the war party.
– O = W
Posted December 9, 2009 by Benton Barnett

Simple budget question: Should we now believe that escalating the Afghanistan War at the same annual cost of universal health care will save more than 45,000 Americans a year (i.e. the number of Americans who die every year for lack of health insurance)?
– David Sirota
Posted December 4, 2009 by Benton Barnett

When you say, “You’re the boss” I hear “We got together and all agree that you’re about to screw this up”
–Rands
Posted November 30, 2009 by Benton Barnett

When I leave work at the end of the day, I’ll often open up the most important task for the following day and place it at the center of my screen. (I learned this tip from Glen Stansberry, I would like to note.) Then, when I sit down to work in the morning, I can immediately start on what I need to do.
- Erin Doland
Posted November 24, 2009 by Benton Barnett

I can not understand why anyone would want to use Helvetica [ in today's identity environment ], it is such an outdated typeface that it looks painfully out of place in any contemporary institution, organization or product
- Armin
Posted November 18, 2009 by Benton Barnett