I like quotes and funny rules. A good quote makes our presentation more interesting, draws attention to the presenter and makes the presentation unforgettable. Ridiculous or easy-to-remember rules help us keep in mind essential things.
Below one of my favorites:
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Quote
"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing."
Alan Perlis -
Rule
"A team shouldn't be larger than what two pizzas can feed."
Jeff Bezos
Now it's your turn to share your quotes and rules related to IT ;)
Top comments (105)
Not restricted to IT, but anyone who has tried estimating work can relate to this:
Hofstadter's Law
Ha! That's great.
Sadly true, I always multiply by 4, but I think I got to do power of 4
love this!
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This sentence reminds me Dr House's favorite saying:
The first thing that came to my mind !
Status: critical.
"Top Priority" and hasn't responded to the ticket in a year and a half.
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, be definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian Kernighan
Just read a similar one!
It's so real.
-Tom Cargill
There’s even a Wikipedia page about the 90-90 rule.
I heard somewhere that multiplying a developers time estimate by PI is very accurate most of the time.
What's PI?
3.141519265358979323.....
The first line of the Agile Manifesto is the one that gets ignored the most.
This is very similar to
which I've heard some time ago.
My other favorite is this:
John F. Woods