Linus Torvalds - creator of Linux

"So start small, and think about the details. Don’t think about some big picture and fancy design. If it doesn’t solve some fairly immediate need, it’s almost certainly over-designed. And don’t expect people to jump in and help you. That’s not how these things work. You need to get something half-way _useful_ first, and then others will say "hey, that _almost_ works for me", and they’ll get involved in the project."

Anders Hejlsberg - chief architect of Delphi and C#

"If you ask beginning programmers to write a calendar control, they often think to themselves, They need to ship a calendar application in two months. They put all this infrastructure into place in the control, and then spend two days writing a crappy calendar application on top of it. They’ll think, "In the next version of the application, I’m going to do so much more. Once they start thinking about how they’re actually going to implement all of these other concretizations of their abstract design, however, it turns out that their design is completely wrong. And now they’ve painted themself into a corner, and they have to throw the whole thing out. I have seen that over and over. I’m a strong believer in being minimalistic. Unless you actually are going to solve the general problem, don’t try and put in place a framework for solving a specific one, because you don’t know what that framework should look like."

Try to follow DRY and KISS principle at the same time a little YAGNI.

Saw this from a forum…

Lesson One

An eagle was sitting on a tree resting, doing nothing. A small rabbit saw the eagle and asked him, “Can I also sit on my as s like you and do nothing?” the eagle answered, “Sure why not?” So the rabbit sat on the ground below the eagle and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it.

Management Lesson: To be sitting on your as s and doing nothing, you must be sitting very high up.

Lesson Two

A turkey was chatting with a bull. “I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree,” sighed the turkey, “but I haven’t got the energy.” “Well, why don’t you nibble on some of my manure droppings?” replied the bull. “They’re packed with nutrients.” The turkey pecked at a lump of manure and found it actually gave him enough strength to reach the lowest branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch. Finally after the fourth night, he was proudly perched at the top of the tree. Soon he was promptly spotted by a farmer, who shot the turkey out of the tree.

Management Lesson: Bullsh** might get you to the top, but it won’t keep you there.

Lesson Three

A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold the bird froze and fell to the ground in a large field. While it was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on it. As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of dung, it began to realize how warm it was. The dung was actually thawing him out. He lay there all warm and happy and soon began to sing for joy. A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate. Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung and promptly dug him out and ate him.

Management Lessons: (1) Not everyone who shits on you is your enemy; (2) Not everyone who gets you out of s hit is your friend; and (3) When you’re in deep s hit, it’s best to keep your mouth shut.

Jeez, just finished watching the Bb. Pilipinas Pageant Q&A portion and wow, the whole TXT generation is really coming back to haunt us. Watch it here. I am not good in English, but damn those things were taught in elementary! And don’t f****ng tell me to let them answer in Tagalog because we are in the Philippines, the mere fact that she is a college masscomm student, MASS COMMUNICATION for pete’s sake!, in one of the top universities in the country that should be an indicator that she is [sic] at least fluent. With so many blunders, nothing against her, but why did she win again?!?

Excerpt from the Q&A:

Q: What role did your family play to you as candidate to Binibining Pilipinas?

A: Well… my family’s role for me is so important because there was the wa- they’re they was the one who’s very… Haha… Oh I’m so sorry… Ahhmm… My pamily… My family… Oh my god… I’m… Ok… I’m so sorry… I… I told you that I’m so confident… Eto… Ahhmm… Wait… Hahahaha… Ahmmm… Sorry guys because this was really my pirst pageant ever because I’m only 17 years old and haha I… I did not expect that I came from… I came from one of the tough 10. Uhmmm… so… but I said that my family is the most important persons in my life. Thank you.

On the side note, I want to kill myself because I didn’t watch the Incubus concert. F******!

Shoutout to a certain girl who brought and is bringing a smile on my face, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you, chi! Always remember a quote from Jean Paul Richter, "our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time" - well I’ll let you interpret on that one. Much love!