“One of my favorite programs that we didn't make is Rescue Time. It runs in the corner of my computer and tracks how much time I spend on different things. I realized that even though I was doing e-mail only a couple of minutes at a time, it was adding up to a couple of hours a day. So I'm trying to reduce that.” TryingDifferentRunningHoursMinutesCoupleComputerProgramMy FavoriteTrackCornersI RealizedDifferent ThingsMailRescue Author:Matt Mullenweg
“I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.” My OwnMistakeFindingsProgramI RealizedProgrammingProgrammersComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesComputer LanguageComputer ProgrammersFunny ComputerProgramming FunnyDebuggingCoders Author:Maurice Wilkes
“I was so excited to be able to say that I was a lesbian that I would shake hands with strangers on the street and say, 'Hi! I'm Sally Gearhart and I'm a lesbian.' Once, appearing on a panel program, I began, 'I'm Sally Lesbian and I'm a gearhart!' I realized then that I had put too much of my identity into being lesbian.” HandsAbleToo MuchStreetsIdentityProgramExcitedStrangerSexualityI RealizedShakesAppearing Author:Sally Miller Gearhart
“I started as a GED instructor, I created my own GED program, and I realized that a lot of young people that don’t do well academically. It’s not that they don’t have the competency to do it or the skill set to do it; it’s just that they weren’t motivated to learn. They weren’t interested in school, so I started just talking to students and just really going in on them like, “Yo, this is life or death.”” PeopleSchoolYoungMy OwnTalkingStudentsSkillsProgramI RealizedMotivatedInstructorsLife Or DeathCompetenciesGed Author:Eric Thomas
“Pretty much at the age of 16, I realized acting wasn't going to be the vocation for me...too political not enough creative control. But I loved the craft and my father wanted me to get a college degree. Seemed natural to study what I loved and Marymount Manhattan has a wonderful theatre program, I highly recommend it! A lot of what I learned there I apply to my comicbook writing and pacing.” WritingEnoughAgeWantedPoliticalFatherNaturalActingCreativeStudyWonderfulCollegeDegreesProgramTheatreI RealizedCraftsVocationManhattanPacingCollege Degree Author:Holly Golightly
“I did community theater and kids programs at professional theaters and plays at school and voice lessons for seven years. I stopped because it was so time-consuming. But then I realized that I had access to this world where I could go on auditions. And there wasn't too much of an identity crisis when I started acting professionally because I had been acting longer than I had been writing. It didn't feel new.” WorldFeelsWritingYearsPlayKidsSchoolVoiceCommunityActingToo MuchIdentityThis WorldGoes OnLessonsProgramTheaterCrisisSevenAccessI RealizedAuditionsSeven YearsConsumingIdentity CrisisTime Consuming Author:Tavi Gevinson
“I started acting when I was 13, but it really wasn't my plan. The actual decision to become an actor was when I was 17, after I didn't act for half a year because I came to an exchange student program in the US, and I realized how much I missed it.” YearsActorsDecisionActingHalfPlansStudentsProgramI RealizedHalf A Year Author:Meital Dohan
“When I read the script [of Good Kill], it read like a science fiction film. And Andrew [writer/director Andrew Niccol] is known for sci-fi. But when I spoke to him, he said this picture was 100% factual, which blew my mind. I realized then how little I knew about the drone program. And I felt that, if I knew so little about it, there must be others who should be educated about what's going on.” IfsShouldMindLittlesSaidFilmFeltFictionKnownDirectorsProgramScience FictionScriptsI RealizedEducatedSpokesSci FiAndrewDronesFactual Author:Zoe Kravitz
“What I realized is that if we're going to be able to have a theory about what happens in, for example, nature there has to ultimately be some rule by which nature operates. But the issue is does that rule have to correspond to something like a mathematical equation, something that we have sort of created in our human mathematics? And what I realized is that now with our understanding of computation and computer programs and so on, there is actually a much bigger universe of possible rules to describe the natural world than just the mathematical equation kinds of things.” WorldKindUniverseUnderstandingNaturalComputerProgramMathematicsI RealizedMathematicalNatural World Author:Stephen Wolfram
“I wrote Baghdad Central right after translating a great work by Ibrahim al-Koni, who is sort of a master of Arab fiction. In conversations with him I realized that translations have been my MFA program. If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English. That's how I've figured it out.” WritingProgramI RealizedTranslateI Have LearnedGreat WorkTranslationsGreat Writers Author:Elliott Colla
“As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.” I CanRememberFoundEasyMy OwnMistakeTechnologyFindingsComputerProgramSurpriseI RealizedInstantProgrammingProgrammersComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesEasy To GetComputer LanguageComputer ProgrammersFunny ComputerProgramming FunnyDebuggingCoders Author:Maurice Wilkes