“Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up.”
– Wally Wood, Editor, Marvel Comics
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On Code Maintenance
“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.”
– Brad Bowman
Career Advice: Just Do Things
“Therein lies the best career advice I could possibly dispense: just DO things. Chase after the things that interest you and make you happy. Stop acting like you have a set path, because you don’t. No one does. You shouldn’t be trying to check off the boxes of life; they aren’t real and they were created by other people, not you. There is no explicit path I’m following, and I’m not walking in anyone else’s footsteps. I’m making it up as I go.”
– Charlie Hoehn
Picasso on Procrastination
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
– Pablo Picasso
How to Become a General
There was a brand-new second lieutenant who was very ambitious and wanted to be a general. So one night at the officer’s club the young officer spotted this old general sitting at the bar. So he went up and said, “How do I become a general?”
And the old general answered, “Son, you’ve got to work like a dog. You’ve got to have moral and physical courage. There may be days you’re tired, but you must never show fatigue. You’ll be afraid, but you can never show fear. You must always be the leader.”
The young officer was so excited by this advice. “Thank you, sir,” he said, “so is this how I become a general?”
“No,” said the general, “that’s how you become a first lieutenant, and then you keep doing it over and over and over.”
– Colin Powell, “The Best Advice I Ever Got“