2010
Nothing is original
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery. celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to.”
2009
seedcamp: It's All About Education
As Morpheus would say:
There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.Your first sprints will probably fail. Ours did. But you have to keep going.
Quotes from the Matrix always look cheesy
2008
Super-sising YouTube with Python
don't waste time writing code to restrict people
after the video that was great the slide on how YouTube scaled. Interesting as always.
2007
plope - What Not To Do When Writing Python Software
Cargo-cult code. Nobody is perfect. Stop for a second and make sure you're not aping something that's even worse than what you might come up with if you started from scratch.
Need to show that to some people I know.
