Low-level Programming Is Good For The Programmer's

It Is Not That Uncommon For The Cost Of An Abstraction To Outweigh The Benefit It Delivers. Kill One Today!

Sometimes, The Elegant Implementation Is Just A Function. Not A Method. Not A Class. Not A Framework. Just A Function.

Because Of The Nature Of Moore's Law, Anything That An Extremely Clever Graphics Programmer Can Do At One Point Can Be Replicated By A Merely Competent Programmer Some Number Of Years Later.

The Cost Of Adding A Feature Isn't Just The Time It Takes To Code It. The Cost Also Includes The Addition Of An Obstacle To Future Expansion. ... The Trick Is To Pick The Features That Don't Fight Each Other.

In The Information Age, The Barriers [to Entry Into Programming] Just Aren't There. The Barriers Are Self Imposed. If You Want To Set Off And Go Develop Some Grand New Thing, You Don't Need Millions Of Dollars Of Capitalization. You Need Enough Pizza And Diet Coke To Stick In Your Refrigerator, A Cheap Pc To Work On, And The Dedication To Go Through With It. We Slept On Floors. We Waded Across Rivers.