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“Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front—”

“When you were new to programming you wrote simple code. Although you may not have appreciated it at the time, this was a great strength.”

“In general, software on today's hardware can pretty much always be very fast. The hardware is kind of amazing, and even the networks are amazing, so there really isn't ever any reason anymore for things to be slow. The reason they're slow is because we don't spend time making them fast.”

“We are all very near despair. The sheathing that floats us over its waves is compounded of hope, faith in the unexplainable worth and sure issue of effort, and the deep, sub-conscious content which comes from the exercise of our powers.”