The first type of judgement is the type where judging you is the end goal... But in fact there is a second much larger class of judgements where judg… - Paul Graham

But it was not till the Industrial Revolution that wealth creation definitively replaced corruption as the best way to get rich. In England, at least, corruption only became unfashionable (and in fact only started to be called “corruption”) when there started to be other, faster ways to get rich.

If you work on something you can finish in a day or two, you can expect to have a nice feeling of accomplishment fairly soon. If the reward is indefinitely far in the future, it seems less real.

Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches.