overthewire’s most recent Quotables

contracts are drawn up in times of joy, for use in times
of sorrow.

Fashion is the enemy of ideas.

The reason so many people give up is because they tend to look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have come.

Give a man a job and you have an employee.
Teach a man how to shift blame and you have a manager.

Innovation comes from creating environments where ideas connect.

It used to be that only cheap foreign manual labor was easily available; now cheap foreign genius is easily available

I've always been very dubious about the idea of learning from people who have been successful. There's this whole cult of worshipping rich people, reading interviews with them, getting their opinions on things, trying to learn what made them successful. I think it's mostly nonsense... The point is if you just look at successful business people, they will probably be confident, decisive, risk takers, aggressive at seizing opportunities, aggressive about growing the business quickly, etc.

social media is still, ultimately, lots and lots of people all going 'LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME!' all at once.

You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

No amount of creativity or design can fix a bad strategy.

Programming costs money, engineering saves money.

Wednesday. When you're too far out to see weekend in any direction.

If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Meetings produce minutes but waste hours.

If a thing is done wrong often enough, it becomes right.

It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good.

The future is about user experience NOT brand experience.

My wife and I had an argument over whether or not I should have a vasectomy so we said we'd let the kids decide. I lost 13 - 12.

Design for the novice. Configure for the pro. The pro will always find the advanced options.

There are no laws of physics in the Social Sciences.