Quotes I will use someday

Even though every new major technology has led to more jobs at higher wages throughout history, each wave of this panic is accompanied by claims that “this time is different” – this is the time it will finally happen, this is the technology that will finally deliver the hammer blow to human labor. And yet, it never happens.

• Marc Andreessen, in Why AI Will Save the World

I tried to work in such a way that I always had a working 3D modeler, and progressively improved it as time allowed. I think about it like building a pyramid. If you build layer by layer, you don’t have a pyramid until the very end. On the other hand you can build it so that stopping at any step is a complete pyramid.

• Daniel Chase Hooper, in Making a 3D Modeler, in C, in a Week

The reason to launch fast is not so much that it’s critical to get your product to market early, but that you haven’t really started working on it till you’ve launched. Launching teaches you what you should have been building. Till you know that you’re wasting your time. So the main value of whatever you launch with is as a pretext for engaging users.

• Paul Graham, in Startups in 13 Sentences

La victoire, c’est celle des armes, et la défaite, c’est la grandeur des âmes

• Philippe De Villiers, dans Face À Philippe De Villiers / 3 Mai 2024 (CNews)

“Why do you need Zig in this situation?” […] Why do I need to do anything? Why do I need to make the video editor? And the is answer is because I fucking feel like it, so, I feel like writing Zig and so here we are.

• sphaerophoria, in Our video editor is actually kinda useable

Deux cents ans d’un crétin, c’est cent-cinquante de trop.

• Michel Onfray, dans FACE À MICHEL ONFRAY (ÉMISSION DU 06/07/2024) - 27:31

Hey front-end folks, just a quick note. Never ever ever ever ever mess with my browser. It’s not yours, it’s mine. I’m letting you use it for free to render your bloated sites. Don’t do this to me. I get to copy paste whatever I want whenever I want. When you get your own browser you can do whatever you want but while you are living in my house under my rules I get to copy/paste whenever I goddamn feel like it.

• Matthew Duggan, in The Worst Website In The Entire World

I loved someone once. I’d put on iazz at night. It was kinda cheesy but I liked it. Besides, she’d iust smile and one night was never enough to get in enough kisses and love making. One lifetime wasn’t enough. She probably kinda liked it too. Eventually, hours later, we’d realize the Pandora station had turned off. Are you still there? It would ask. She made me feel infinite, like that galaxy in the picture. I felt free, like I could do anything in the world. Perfectly happy, too - I knew there was nothing else in the world I wanted more than what I had right then. Even having her wasn’t enough - like I said, a lifetime wasn’t enough to fit all the love. Now all I’ve got are the memories. Part of me knows you only get one space ship like that in you’re life if you’re lucky. The rest of me has been trying to bludgeon it into silence in the hopes that maybe I’ll realize a sports car will be way better than I thought it could be. But even a smart, loving, super attractive sports car… just ain’t a rocket ship

• Anon