“I have nodded and looked into their eyes and hummed sympathetically as people gave their reasons and made their excuses and generally offered up, as if they were golden ingots of profound wisdom, the handful of two-penny nails with which they plan to board up the windows of their hopes for themselves, their families, their country and the world.”
—Michael Chabon, in a Washington Post op-ed about Obama and the “Phobocracy” #
Archive for February, 2008
“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”
—Koz in #rails-contrib after I mentioned that I’d headed into Rails’ routing code a couple months ago to add a new feature, then got scared and went home #
“If I’d wanted building blocks for rolling my own, I’d have gone to Home Depot and bought a 1 and a 0.”
—Ian Dees, in a post comparing distributed version control systems #
