Category Archives: Status Messages

A fool with a tool is still a fool.

A fool with a tool is still a fool.

~Abraham Verghese

Hindi Wisdom

पिच शामे है बैटिंग करना सीखो बॉल को मत कोसो.

Learn to bat: don’t curse the ball.

Fortune Cookie Wisdom

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Adaptability

No plan survives contact with the enemy.

~ Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

Money Can’t Buy Happiness…

While money can’t buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

~ Groucho Marx

 

Not Eldon Tyrell

The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

~ Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching

Passionate Hatred…

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

~ Eric Hoffer

Miracle Max

You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles.

The Fastest Code is Code You Don’t Write

I guess this is kinda-sorta like YAGNI.

Clever Coding

Never show me how smart you are in code.

It should be understandable to a precocious five-year-old.

Granted, there’s some stuff — like trig when you’re using map APIs — that might be a little bit challenging, but…