Quotes from Chet Haase

That's part of this world: you learn probably more from the failures than you do from the successes.

The only code that doesn't have bugs is code that is not yet written.

Andy didn't get to build his camera OS. But given how critical the camera is on phones today, you could argue that he created the most widely-used camera OS ever; he just did it in a roundabout way.

Developing APIs is the process of building future regret. Even if it looks good now, you would probably do it differently in a few years given changing requirements and future developments. But you do the best you can and move on, because shipping anything is better than not shipping perfection.

Honestly, which one of us can rightly claim that they are absolutely confident in what they do and have no doubt whatsoever in their knowledge or decisions?

And what happens when we do better? Does the doubt go away? Of course not; we just doubt things on an entirely new level. So we keep trying. And the bigger the doubts, the harder we try.

When I am king, annual birthdays will be banned and we will instead celebrate birthdays once every five years. With such large delays in birthday celebrations, maybe we can bring ourselves to actually care when someone has one.

I've heard that some people say that life is too short to worry. But they're completely missing the point: life is all about worry. Take away the stress and what do we have left of our lives except a bunch of people that don't like us?

Most software that is written is either re-implementing existing concepts or building upon and extending them in new ways.

You know what resolutions are? They're a setup for defeat.

I learned that programming was mostly typing. To this day, I don't understand why software development takes so long.

A thanked employee is an appreciative employee." And thanks is cheaper than cash.

Swetland remembered, "Ficus declared that if anyone asked what the Big O51 of anything was, he was simply going to say, 'I'm far too handsome to answer that question.