The most horrible invention in the last 20 years

"Here is what I think: The web was probably the most horrible invention in the last 20 years. Just exactly the wrong thing to do.

Now, it happened by accident, and it evolved, and I think that's very interesting. But if you take about 5 steps back and look at this thing we call web and you realize "we're jumping through 85 hoops a day just to get anything done".

How many languages do you have to know to get a freaking a website up?"

-- Bob Martin @ Pragmatic Podcast 29

Blame

Leaders accept blame

-- @johnprg

Language Wars

Rival languages are welcome.

I'll crush you.

-- Matz at rubykaigi 2011

Measure performance

Even if you know exactly what is going on in your system, measure performance, don’t speculate. You’ll learn something, and nine times out of ten, it won’t be that you were right!

-- Ron Jeffries