Discussion on: Can you share your favorite quote or rule related to IT?

[Ryan Palo]

Make it work, make it right, make it fast.
-- Kent Beck

My other favorite is this:

if you ever code something that "feels like a hack but it works," just remember that a CPU is literally a rock that we tricked into thinking
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not to oversimplify: first you have to flatten the rock and put lightning inside it
-- @daisyowl