Thomas Jefferson's best advice Oct 16
10 comments Latest by Justin Reese
“The hole and the patch should be commensurate.”
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10 comments so far
Dustin Senos 16 Oct 07
way to true. best to keep this in the back of your mind while doing anything creative or programming.
Benjamin "balupton" Lupton 16 Oct 07
You’ve already said this: http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/546-spot-on
Bil Kleb 16 Oct 07
Many more such gems at http://jeffersonhour.org
Tony Hillerson 17 Oct 07
One of our brightest presidents. Abe was another…
Tor Løvskogen 17 Oct 07
Yeah, I thought I had read it here before, Benjamin.
Justin 17 Oct 07
How is it that our past presidents are so much smarter than our current presidents? Aren’t humans supposed to be advancing in Intelligence??
Deano 17 Oct 07
He also said “please add global editing of tags to Highrise”. And he wants search improved as well, he told me so.
Justin Reese 17 Oct 07
@Justin: “The system” realized it was all about marketing, so we stopped electing statesmen and started electing politicians. “The industries” realized they could manipulate the markets through government policies, so they fed money to puppet candidates and funded mudslinging against any rivals.
In all of Congress and the Administration, there are maybe two classic statesmen: Ron Paul and Russ Feingold.
jon oropeza 17 Oct 07
@Justin Reese: Are you sure the statesman persona wasn’t just the marketing technique du jour way back when? :) (Sorry, couldn’t resist).
Great quote, how many times have I released a patch that made a bigger mess than the original hole? It’s a good thing we can learn from our mistakes…
Justin Reese 17 Oct 07
@jon: Hah, maybe so. That would still be depressing, since it would say quite a lot about the target of marketing, the “common man”.
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