How refreshing. When I graduated I thought I knew it all.
"I see websites like Stack Overflow and search engines like Google and don't know where I'd even begin to write something like that."
In response I'll quote part of the best paragraph PG's ever written:
"I've always been fascinated by comb-overs, especially the extreme sort that make a man look as if he's wearing a beret made of his own hair. How does the comber-over not see how odd he looks? The answer is that he got to look that way incrementally. What began as combing his hair a little carefully over a thin patch has gradually, over 20 years, grown into a monstrosity. Gradualness is very powerful. And that power can be used for constructive purposes too: just as you can trick yourself into looking like a freak, you can trick yourself into creating something so grand that you would never have dared to plan such a thing. Indeed, this is just how most good software gets created. You start by writing a stripped-down kernel (how hard can it be?) and gradually it grows into a complete operating system." -- http://paulgraham.com/essay.html (His best essay IMO.)
"I see websites like Stack Overflow and search engines like Google and don't know where I'd even begin to write something like that."
In response I'll quote part of the best paragraph PG's ever written:
"I've always been fascinated by comb-overs, especially the extreme sort that make a man look as if he's wearing a beret made of his own hair. How does the comber-over not see how odd he looks? The answer is that he got to look that way incrementally. What began as combing his hair a little carefully over a thin patch has gradually, over 20 years, grown into a monstrosity. Gradualness is very powerful. And that power can be used for constructive purposes too: just as you can trick yourself into looking like a freak, you can trick yourself into creating something so grand that you would never have dared to plan such a thing. Indeed, this is just how most good software gets created. You start by writing a stripped-down kernel (how hard can it be?) and gradually it grows into a complete operating system." -- http://paulgraham.com/essay.html (His best essay IMO.)