"We are shown how to fashion masks of ennui and jaded irony at a young age where the face is fictile enough to assume the shape of whatever it wears. And then it’s stuck there, the weary cynicism that saves us from gooey sentiment and unsophisticated naiveté."

"There is more value in learning to work in and around piles of crappy code than learning to make beautiful code; all code turns into shit given enough time and hands." -There are some real gems in this and most of them seem true enough to me.