Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.

  • -- Paul Graham 保罗·格雷厄姆

到目前为止,想必每个人都知道过早优化的危险。我认为我们也应该担心过早的设计——过早地设计一个程序应该做什么。

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We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view.

当我们去这些国家的时候,我们必须非常小心我们最好的行为举止。然后我谋生,我有机会养活我的妻子和孩子。从这个角度来看,这是一个非常非常棒的项目。

‘Form follows profit’ is the aesthetic principle of our times. Thus, design skill is measured today by the architect’s ability to build the largest possible enclosure for the smallest investment in the quickest time.

“形以利为本”是我们这个时代的审美原则。因此,今天的设计技巧是由建筑师在最短的时间内以最小的投资建造尽可能大的围护结构的能力来衡量的。

I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.

我很惊讶地发现,那些不属于设计学科的人常常认为设计师所做的就是装饰。好的设计就是解决问题。

To write better you must develop your taste for truth. You have to pay more attention to what you really think, feel, see and want.

为了写得更好,你必须培养你对真理的鉴赏力。你必须更加关注你真正的想法、感受、看到和想要什么。

I'm taking it step by step and not thinking at all about a new contract.

我一步一步来,一点也不考虑新的合同。

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.

这就像把太空计划交给长岛铁路一样。