Which quotes apply best to software development?

What quotes about life, wisdom, and the world in general apply very well to software development?

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[Ben Halpern]

A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places.

• Paul Gauguin

[Ben Lovy]

Four! I mean five! I mean fire!

• Maurice Moss, The IT Crowd, Season 1 episode 2, 2006

[sdorbala]

That is a funny line from Maurice. Love the series.

[Fulton Browne]

Moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove - nick burns - SNL

[Jason V. Castellano]

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."

[MurrayVarey]

Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.

• Raymond Chandler

[Corey McCarty]

This is how I blog. Writing several in parallel.

[MurrayVarey]

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.

[Corey McCarty]

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.

[Alex Patterson]

There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who know binary and those who don't.

[Greg Edelston]

...And those who know ternary.

[Aubrey Fletcher]

What the heck is that?!

[Dana Ottaviani]

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

[Ben Halpern]

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

I love that.

[Ankit Beniwal]

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

Bruce Lee

[Michael Caveney]

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

[Tanmay Naik]

Perseverance wins where talent gives up.

• Me

[Swarup Kumar Mahapatra]

"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

[Stephen Belovarich]

Do or do not, there is no try.

• Yoda

[Alex Kondov]

“Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.”

― Kevin Durant

[Max Ong Zong Bao]

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." by Henry Ford

"No man is an island" by John Donne

[Michael Lee 🍕]

Weniger, aber besser.
Less, but better.

• Dieter Rams