Tim Bray quotes

Tim Bray quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory of stupid mistakes.”
-- Tim Bray

#Mistake Quotes #Stupid Quotes #Design Quotes
“Free markets are a tool, free speech is a goal.”
-- Tim Bray

#Goal Quotes #Speech Quotes #Tools Quotes
“It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years.”
-- Tim Bray

#Ideas Quotes #Years Quotes #Months Quotes
“The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don't know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in the Enterprise. This is true even when you factor in the greater flexibility and velocity of startups.”
-- Tim Bray

#Community Quotes #Risk Quotes #Velocity Quotes
“For heavens sake, if you havenâ€™t gotten comfy with Agile techniques and thinking, get on it right now.”
-- Tim Bray

#Thinking Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Technique Quotes
“The SOAP stack is generally regarded as an embarrassing failure these days.”
-- Tim Bray

#Soap Quotes #Embarrassing Quotes #These Days Quotes
“All the PHP code I've seen in that experience has been messy, unmaintainable crap. Spaghetti SQL wrapped in spaghetti PHP wrapped in spaghetti HTML, replicated in slightly-varying form in dozens of places.”
-- Tim Bray

#Html Quotes #Dozen Quotes #Spaghetti Quotes
“Bloggers and other flavors of lone wolf are publishing heart-wrenching photo-essays from the front line of the recovery effort. Newspapers and TV networks? They're writing about the temperature of the water in some part (they don't specify which) of some damaged reactor, illustrating it with video screen grabs of machinery they don't understand enough to explain.”
-- Tim Bray

#Recovery Quotes #Writing Quotes #Heart Quotes

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