Knowing when to walk away
“One of the best programming skills you can have is knowing when to walk away for awhile.” — Oscar Godson — Programming Wisdom
Great developers solve problems
“Every great developer you know got there by solving problems they were unqualified to solve until they actually did it.” — Patrick McKenzie — Programming Wisdom
The Programmers' Credo
The Programmers’ Credo: we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy. — Pinboard
Any intelligent fool...
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction. E.F. Schumacher
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is...
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. Isaac Asimov
A good plan violently executed right now...
A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week. George S. Patton
Quite often, the silver bullet mentality...
Quite often, the silver bullet mentality when applied to technology leads to false expectations, as people within an organization think that installing a piece of software will correct fundamentally nontechnical problems with the way business is done. Chad Dickerson, InfoWorld
Never attribute to malice...
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Hanlon’s razor
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