There's no point in trying to hack apart the connections between the inside and the outside of the mind.
Instead we ought to focus on managing and improving those connections.
Schools ought to teach the high art of how to be discriminating.
If I had to name one high-cultural notion that had died in my adult lifetime, it would be the idea that difficulty is artistically desirable.
Don't make fun of grad students! They just made a terrible life choice.
So worrisome has the situation become that students at prestigious universities are even talking about becoming butchers.
Do not destroy what you cannot create.
Don't let your design make promises you can't keep.
Before you reconfigure, mount a scratch monkey.
Your code should not look hopelessly unmaintainable, just be that way.
Otherwise it stands the risk of being rewritten or refactored.
Don't forget about forgetting.