I remember a discussion on one of the OpenSolaris mailing lists long ago when kernel developer Bryan Cantrill said that ideas are expressed in code and that the implementation itself was the idea. I love that!

His statement was probably in response to some meandering thread where people were just talking in circles and not doing anything. I remember at the time many engineers feeling the same way about such conversations. And I know from my construction days that most contractors and craftsmen got that concept as well. So, don’t just talk. Write something. Build something. Do something. That’s what gets attention. That’s when the conversation begins.

Image: Adam Leventhal, Bryan Cantrill, and John Gage at SunNetwork China in Beijing in 2004.