Kelvin Ang

The best hacker in the world is not Kevin Mitnick, Mudge, or c0mrade.

He never got caught.

When you are willing to delete large chunks of your work for something simpler – that’s when you know that you’ve improved.

…especially in a non-artistic context, it just shows that the person hasn’t grasped the concept well enough to approach it Mathematically and systematically.

Nothing actually matters in the end.

Let that give you the courage to be free.

Study the actions of any single person and you’ll find chaos and unpredictability. Study the collective actions of thousands of people and order starts to emerge. The more humans participating, and the longer the time horizon, the more predictable it is. The human race evolves quickly in science and technology, but the fear and greed built into our genome will keep us predictable for hundreds and thousands of years to come.

First, do something that impresses yourself

Then, do it 10 times better

Otherwise, don’t bother

Mistakes are key to escaping the local minima of known art, and is an essential component of true creativity. A perfect machine that can’t make mistakes against it’s own established knowledge can’t create. General intelligence therefore must be imperfect, and be allowed to make mistakes.

Programs are instructions for computers

Processes are instructions for humans

A software engineer is good in the former, but an engineer is good in both

The poor engineer makes good technologies.

The rich engineer makes good products.

…are the hardest to find.