Code is not your friend

Daniel — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:31:07 +0000

Silent Don Speaks: &unescape(Donald Ferguson: Calvin “ Silent Cal” Coolidge was also from rural New England. A newspaper reporter was going to the White House for a state dinner. She bet her editor that she could get Silent Cal to say more than three words to her at dinner. At dinner, she charmingly told the situation to Silent Cal. His response. “You lose.” My hero. [Awesome. Further if you follow the link… “Simplicity is not a spontaneous emergent function of abstraction. Abstraction doesn’t create simplicity, it often just hides complexity. Hiding complexity can be a good thing, certainly, but its also good to try and drive it out where possible.” I have no advice for the Tabasco problem. There’s no question in my mind, code is not your friend. Less code and less configuration, and in general less is your friend. It’s taken many years for me to recognize the lesson, and I’m still internalizing it and paring down. More life, less of everything else.]
Source: Sam Ruby

Spoken: Code is not your friend

Code is not your friend