David Heinemeier Hansson

"I thought it was amazing since day one and been a ChatGPT user since the first days of that interface and just love that we were able to make computers do this right from the get-go."

"My favorite game of all time is Civilization 1, the original Sid Meyers game, which is obviously about world building."

"Ruby is designed to make the programmer feel good. I've now spent well over 20 years just absolutely loving the Ruby programming language."

"I'm doing this call from my Framework desktop running Omakase and my delicious mechanical low-profile keyboard and it all just works beautifully."

"Amazing book. Amazing story. He really gave us certainly gave me permission to think very different ways about how to do things."

"Kent Beck is the author of Extreme Programming, one of the heretical software methodologies back in the 90s. I saw Kent Beck on stage in 2001 and I was just in awe."

"My favorite book on the nitty-gritties of programming is a small book he wrote in the 90s called Smalltalk Best Practices. It is the most influential book on how I write software that I've ever read."

"Gary Vee has this book Jab Jab Right Hook. Love the book. Love the concept in basis is give, give, give, jab, jab, jab 100 times."

"Shopify last year grew almost 30% year-over-year. I'm like, I would have been happy to go 30% year-over-year. They're doing it from a base that's just unfathomable."