“Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.”
“It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one—not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses — ever makes it alone.”
“No one-not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses-ever makes it alone”
“Complain about the way other people make software by making software.”
“I’m thirty-six years old, but I don’t feel like it. Some days I feel like I’m twenty-one, some days I feel like I’m pushing sixty.”
“When I turn thirty, in thirty days or so, I might be feeling old, so I’ll probably call my grandma up, because as old as I’ll feel, she’ll be feeling older. Twelve years older. ”