Цитаты из #474

## Код и язык

> «Ruby was made for my brain like a perfect tailored glove by someone I'd never met.» — [0:45:07](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=2707)

> «Oh, someone is looking out for the human here, not for the machine.» — [0:44:04](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=2644)

> «Ruby is a luxury language… It is the Coco Chanel of programming languages.» — [1:23:01](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=4981)

> «I chisel them out of the screen with my bare hands. I don't auto complete.» — [1:08:40](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=4120)

> «You don't use your Pagani to go pick up groceries at Costco.» — [1:11:47](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=4307)

> «It is the first rule of distributed programming. Do not distribute your programming.» — [2:06:51](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=7611)

> «I'm not just handing you a box of fucking Legos and asking you to build the Millennium Falcon. I'm giving you a finished toy.» — [2:02:43](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=7363)

> «Here's a dull butter knife. Cut your damn steak.» — про языки без острых ножей — [2:19:10](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=8350)

> «I'm not an engineer… I'm a software writer.» — [5:26:37](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=19597)

> «A lot of people are very uncomfortable with the fact that they are essentially CRUD monkeys… and they have to compensate for that existential dread by overcomplicating things.» — [0:17:24](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=1044)

## ИИ, июль 2025

> «I can literally feel competence draining out of my fingers.» — [1:28:06](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=5286)

> «Is this the end of learning? Am I no longer learning if I'm not typing?» — [1:29:09](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=5349)

> «A project manager of a murder of AI crows.» — [1:33:14](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=5594)

> «You're gonna learn in this superficial way that feels like learning, but is completely empty calories.» — [1:51:31](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=6691)

> «Editing is the reward you get from being a good doer. You have to be a doer first.» — [1:54:35](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=6875)

> «Rule number one, nobody fucking knows anything. No one can predict even six months ahead.» — [1:43:24](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=6204)

## Команды и работа

> «Humans don't scale. Communication between humans certainly don't scale.» — [2:34:36](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=9276)

> «You cannot produce the kind of software that Basecamp is with a team of a thousand people. You will build the kind of software that a thousand people builds.» — [2:33:35](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=9215)

> «We just need to leave people the hell alone to work on problems that they enjoy for long stretches of uninterrupted time.» — [2:24:15](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=8655)

> «There's way too much bouncing going on and not enough scoring, not enough dunking.» — [2:52:56](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=10376)

> «Let me give you a tip, get a wife.» — [2:56:01](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=10561)

> «If you are creating something of value that a lot of people love, you must create an equal and opposite force of haters. The only escape from that is mediocrity.» — Кэти Сьерра в его пересказе — [2:46:51](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=10011)

> «The capacity to evaluate work product is a superpower when it comes to hiring.» — [3:38:53](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=13133)

## Жизнь

> «Mojito Island is a mirage. It always was. There is no retirement for ambitious people.» — [3:02:39](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=10959)

> «If that sprint turns into a decade, you're gonna pay for it.» — [2:59:02](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=10742)

> «I can be in the top 5% on like five things at once.» — [3:13:18](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=11598)

> «I would fuck not say a thing. I would not rob my younger self of all the life experiences.» — [3:07:09](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=11229)

> «40 hours a week is actually a ton if you don't piss it away.» — [4:27:12](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=16032)

> «The scale doesn't go from one to 10. It goes from one to 100.» — про детей — [4:09:42](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=14982)

> «I would trade all of it in a heartbeat for my kids.» — [4:12:49](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=15169)

> «I am already where I wished I would be and a million times over. So what less is there to pursue?» — [5:58:09](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=21489)

> «I find it easier to be optimistic than pessimistic, because I don't know either way.» — [6:01:56](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=21716)

## Open source и принципы

> «I'm here as a bringer of gift… I'm not a vendor.» — [5:33:44](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=20024)

> «You don't get to take a gift back.» — [5:44:55](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=20695)

> «I will burn this business down before I hand over 30% of it to Apple.» — [3:58:27](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=14307)

> «Of course it's cheaper to own things if you need those things for years rather than it is to rent it. In no other domain would we confuse those two things.» — [3:31:38](https://youtu.be/vagyIcmIGOQ?t=12698)

> «What you do is what matters, not what you think or say, or plan.» — «Rework», финал выпуска