Great Geek Manual

Ones and zeroes in the clean environment of a computer chip can be controlled absolutely. When you write a reasonably self-contained program, everything that goes right and everything that goes wrong is entirely your fault. It is not a metaphor; programming simply is small-scale godhood.

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—	Response from Eliezer on Hacker News.

Programmers are the Gods of their tiny worlds. They create something out of nothing. In their command-line universe, they say when it’s sunny and when it rains. And the tiny universe complies.

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—	“Programmers are Tiny Gods” by Derek Powazek, January 15, 2009.

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

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—	Bruce Lee Yes, I quoted Bruce Lee. I do it quite often. His quotations are surprisingly relevant to the world of technology.