This quote is all the more remarkable considering who said it and when. Even now, being boastful is a huge social error among educated English people, and it would have been even more so in 1940 when Hardy was writing. So clearly this was something he thought very important.
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But then the impostor syndrome kicks in for programmers and what not. I can see the value behind this quote. If you truly truly believe in it, you'll do this naturally — because it's important to you. Sneakers are like this to me, hence the app I've created
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"To stay with the future as it moves, is to always play your systems more grand than they seem to be right now." -- Alan Kay
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Fitting, for the whole
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This is the hardest part of entrepreneurship for me - just naturally rebel against overselling anything.
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"exaggerate a little"... is this what the street and public view Elon and Tesla as well?
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I'm not sure it should say "Good work... ", maybe "Memorable work..." has more truth to it.
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It seems good quotes must not be humble either.
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Also this quote at scale is recursive in a bad way.
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