Quotes of the week

I think the lesson we can all draw is that architectural decisions made for political strategy reasons are of limited utility. Eventually, code designed for technical superiority will become more popular than code with features missing for "strategic reasons". If you want the more popular code to be free software, and if you want it to be GPLed software, then you must assure that your alternative is technically as good as it can be and suits the needs of its users as well as it can.

That’s about as comprehensible as Vorlon poetry to me.

My guess is that robots are expensive to build and maintain; people are self-replicating and largely self-maintaining. Remember that third input to the factory, 'rice'? Any robot’s spare parts have to be cheaper than rice to earn a place on this factory’s floor.

Spaghetti is beautiful and delicious and shouldn’t be used as a metaphor for circuitous code. Say “headphone cables code” instead.

We're now in the uncanny valley of software progress.