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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It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.

这是一个令人痛心的事实,也应该让我们当中最聪明的人懂得谦卑:许多最有价值的发现,都是偶然的结果,而不是深思熟虑的结果,都是偶然的结果,而不是精心设计的结果。

Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck.

有些故事作者所知甚少,但运行一个计算机程序告诉他如何建造一颗行星,并查找有关火箭等的具体信息,真的很糟糕。

My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.

我对光、颜色和设计的特殊审美不会因为使用计算机图形而改变,而不是使用狭缝扫描或微缩模型。

If you aren't having no fun, die, because you're running a worthless program, far as I'm concerned.

如果你没有乐趣,死吧,因为你在运行一个毫无价值的程序,在我看来。

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

有些人认为他们值很多钱只是因为他们拥有它。

I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness.

我不认为海湾战争疾病有一个原因。