What quotes about life, wisdom, and the world in general apply very well to software development?
What quotes about life, wisdom, and the world in general apply very well to software development?
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Code is like a joke. When you have to explain it, it’s bad.
If you have to explain a joke that means it's very clever 😋
Mine are probably more towards respecting each other in the software industry than development itself, but I hope it's acceptable.
Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be," - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.
-Elwood P. Dowd, "Harvey"
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
-Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
The single biggest problem with communications is the illusion that it has taken place.
-George Bernard Shaw
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
-Samuel Beckett
I love that.
That is a funny line from Maurice. Love the series.
There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who know binary and those who don't.
...And those who know ternary.
Bruce Lee
I legit think about Bruce Lee and programming all the time, especially that thing he said about it not being about daily increase but daily decrease
This is my tagline here on DEV. It's a bit tongue-in-cheek, but it also has a lot of truth in it. Your code will never be 100% production-ready; at some point, you have to just bite the bullet and ship. And that's good, because the only way to really find the edge case bugs, the issues with scale, and the strange ways people are using your code is to actually let them use it, even if it's not perfect yet.
This is how I blog. Writing several in parallel.
Same -- it's the easiest way to get words out onto a page. I've heard people call it The Vomit Draft. I find it also applies to coding.
Coding with a vomit draft is important to comment previous iterations (possibly previous vomit) so that when you go to clean up that you might find something important in one of those comments. But, please do not leave commented code for long term.
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." -Walt Disney
One thing I've learned over the last couple years, is meetings about work is no substitute for work. The amount of progress that can be made from 'heads down' programming can be remarkable. Meetings certainly have their place at making sure everyone is on the same page but too much talking gets in the way of doing.
You can have it fast, working, or cheap. Pick two.
pick one is what I say.
Really hits home.
What comes to my mind is a very french quote that neatly encapsulate our Hype Driven Delopment Culture
I can relate to this too damn hard it hurts.
I would like to share two thoughts:
when I was 16 Years Old my Late Father told me this thought but he added one more thing to it- Intelligent Mind act in Silence. Today, I know what it really means.
Whenever I meet young developers, I share this thought telling them Your Silence learning will make you a wonderful developer as well as wonderful person to contribute to your field.
Every developer should Know, There is a time limit to deliver the project. That Day will happen and the customer wants the project as he desired.
What the heck is that?!
The translation is slightly wrong IMO but relatable.
It should be "I have made this longer just because I don't have the leisure to make it shorter" (you could also use "do" depending on the context).
"Do a job you love and you won't work a day in your life" - Steve Jobs
My motto
Electronics engineer to me: If it's not smoking, it's a software problem.
A quote from a friend: Real women don't point and click, they give commands.
"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." - Martin Fowler
slow is smooth, smooth is fast
slower development time and correct planning makes changes and fixes much quicker later on be multiples.
“The only constant in life is change” - Heraclitus
Great quote from a blog post I read just a few days ago.
Max Kanat-Alexander, Code Simplicity
"In programming the hard part isn’t solving problems, but deciding what problems to solve."
"I live, I die, I live again" - Mad Max Fury Road.
To all fellow devs , who fix bugs just to find new bugs in production
"The art of giving the same name to different things"
Moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove - nick burns - SNL
"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
A good dev is the one that copy code and know what is copying.
-anonymous
A bit late to the party, but don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
Its works only in my system #code
"All code is garbage and every programmer needs the courage to regularly take out the trash." ~ Me but someone else originally (probably).
"It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law."
Well, one of my favorite quotes: "The easiest thing to do in life is to do things that told, the hardest thing to do, is to do things when nobody is watching."
― Kevin Durant
Write code like a blind man is going to read it
"Nobody knows anything"
-William Goldman
Endless learning!
“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment”
-Carl Friedrich Gauss