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A good programmer is someone who always look both ways before crossing a one-way street.

#programmers #methodology #worst case scenario #corner cases

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

Brian O'Driscoll

#knowledge #wisdom #theory #practice

If it’s hard to maintain, it’s crap.

Nigel Jones & Michael Barr

#coding standards #technical debt #maintaining #software #crap code

We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of indirection.

Butler Lampson (Fundamental theorem of software engineering)

#engineering #indirection #abstraction #software

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Hans Hofmann

#simplicity #abstraction #design

What can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Hitchens' Razor

#assumptions #religion #atheism

Some people get confused when a sentence does not end as they potato.

Kirai

#joke #assumptions

Everyone Is a Genius, but if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.

Albert Einstein

#intelligence #metrics #standards #stupidity

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

#predictions #future #failure #joke

Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.

Alan Perlis

#programming #principles #computer science #programming languages #turing-complete #failure

“I have an ugly tendency to blame all my failings on others. It’s something I picked up from my parents”

Matt Wedel

#blame #failure #Teamwork #joke

Fish don't know they're in water

Derek Sivers

#culture #conventions #assumptions

There is much pleasure in useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

#useless #knowledge #joy

A camel is a horse designed by committee.

Sir Alec Issigonis

#committees #criticism

fuckyeahcomputerscience

Toothpaste For Dinner

#programming languages #joke

Many of those who were ahead of their time had to wait for it in not too comfortable quarters.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#innovation #tradition

Verba movent, exempla trahunt.

Latin proverb.

#teaching #good practices

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