Thanks to Jon Paul Davies for quoting the Pragmatic Programmer.
“Critically Analyse What You Read and Hear. Don’t be swayed by vendors, media hype, or dogma. Analyse information in terms of you and your project.”
I’ve been living my life that way for so long I’ve given up even trying to be gracious about accepting someone’s words. I’m known to just flat out say “I don’t believe that.” When I hear something from someone which doesn’t match points at which I have arrived from previous critical analysis.
Jon Paul also has a really cool domain name. It makes me want to register jay-w.com for myself, but there is already a jayw.com and wouldn’t you know it??? This Jay Walters fella is a Software Developer too!