"Smart people find boring things even more boring than the masses."
-- Frank Wiles
"...making hackers work in a noisy, distracting environment is like having a paint factory where the air is full of soot."
-- Paul Graham
"These "uber-programmers" are what you and I know as "wildly successful startup founders." Part of the reason it's so hard to hire them is because they are mostly already independently wealthy and / or personally invested in a project of love that no offer of cash and benefits will draw them away from. Most likely, if the former is not true, the latter will eventually cause it to be true. The best and most common way of hiring an über-programmer is to buy the company they currently work for."
-- slashdot comment
"There's no one programmer who does the work of ten other programmers. One uber-programmer does just as much work as one ordinary programmer. It's just that the results solve ten times as many problems. Programming is fundamentally a design problem."
-- slashdot comment
