“A karass is a team of people that does God’s Will without ever discovering what they are doing. Humanity is organized into many such teams. One can try to discover the limits of one’s karass and the nature of the work God Almighty has had it do, but such investigations are bound to be incomplete.

“Leo is an outlining editor for literate programming and a multi-view project manager..

“..since mTurk uses an extrinsic reward system it naturally attracts those jobs that aren’t intrinsically rewarding.

“Repeat after me: the plural of anecdote is not data.

“..it’s constantly amazing how much refactoring [in haskell and factor] is simply moving some set of words from one place to another. Type inference means I don’t have to repeat argument types. Being pointfree means I don’t even have to repeat argument names.

“..the cognitive load required to complete an action is proportional to the number of steps required..

“Using the same tools over and over again means each project starts by fighting the last battle over again..

“Many of the Slashdot trolling phenomena started out on Segfault.org. During its early days, Segfault would allow anybody to comment upon stories.. as time went on more of the posts were troll posts.. Segfault lacked any mechanism to remove trolls.. Eventually it was forced to disable comments. The troll community which had been well established on Segfault, having “killed their host”, sought out a new host to “infect” - Slashdot.

“Don’t bother developers with macros when they aren’t writing one: the language’s syntax and semantics should be best suited for those 95% of the time when we aren’t writing macros.

“In our artificial market.. social influence played as large a role in determining the market share of successful songs as differences in quality.