Greenfield development, where a development team starts out with a blank IDE console and fills it with beautiful, concise code is a very small slice in the life of a software application.
The large area of the sky in the paintings, the soulful composition, and seemingly simple brushstrokes are in fact expressions of the essence of life that is the pursuit of freedom.
I have spent too much time being rattled by terse E-mail from editors, agents who have told me that I'd never get a book deal, and bosses who have berated me as not being "detail-oriented."
Well before he died of cancer in 2008, Harold Pinter knew he had earned a reputation for being "enigmatic, taciturn, terse, prickly, explosive and forbidding".