May Likes Toronto1d ago

Sometimes I see what the super techie folks post, and I wonder if you're just intentionally playing on hard mode.

Not that I understand what you're doing, but I wouldn't put it past you lovely people on Fedi.

Show threadFabio Neves 🇨🇦🇧🇷
@mayintoronto I don’t know who said it first but: “we did this not because it was easy but because we thought it would be easy”
Mar 21 at 8:14pmWeb
Show threadJamey Sharp22h ago
@fabio @mayintoronto I think it's a great quip regardless of the origin but if you want to know who said it first, I believe that was coined by Maciej Cegłowski in https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/761656824202276864
Pinboard (@Pinboard) on X

The Programmers’ Credo: we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy

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