November 2009
12 posts
“Most men live lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with their song...”
– Henry Thoreau: author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher
tag: on success and shipping →
But none of this answers the original question: why do we have an <img> element?
Why not an <icon> element? Or an <include> element? Why not a hyperlink with
an include attribute, or some combination of rel values? Why an <img> element?
Quite simply, because Marc Andreessen shipped one, and shipping code wins.
“I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of...”
– Cormac McCarthy - American novelist and playwright
“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough...”
– Leonard Bernstein, conductor, composer, author
“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above...”
– James Cameron, director
Inventing language →
During the question-and-answer session that followed the talk,
Liskov was asked the secret of her success. Part of her answer —
which must have chagrined some members of the audience —
was that “I don’t work that many hours a day.” “I always went
home at night, and didn’t work in the evening,” she said. “I
always found that downtime to be really useful.” She also,...
List of cats with fraudulent diplomas →
The name says it all
