David Heinemeier Hansson's RailsConf 2017 Opening Keynote

Transcript

1. THE BEST! TOOL
 FOR THE JOB!
7. Ruby is a language of choice
10. Belief systems
11. – Albert Camus “A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images”
12. Programmer Happiness
16. – Émile Durkheim “If society lacks the unity based upon the commitment of men's wills to a common objective, then it is no more than a pile of sand that the least jolt or the slightest puff will suffice to scatter”
17. – Louis CK “Everything is amazing and nobody’s happy”
18. #FOMO
21. Faith
22. TDD
23. Static typing
24. Immutability
25. – Edmund Burke “Beauty is the promise of happiness”
26. Absurdity
27. – Albert Camus “Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world”
30. – Abbé Galiani to Madame D’Épinay “The important thing is not to be cured, but to live with one's ailments”
33. Disappointment
34. “The key to being happy isn't a search for meaning. It's to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually, you'll be dead”
35. Motivation
36. 10x
38. “A day in the Marine Corps is like a day on the farm. Every meal's a banquet! Every paycheck a fortune! Every formation a parade! I love the Corps! “
39. – Nolan Bushnell “All the best games are easy to learn and difficult to master”
41. Ask not what Ruby can do you for, ask what you can do for Ruby