Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
My head rang like a gong.