Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom
Programming wisdom and quotes throughout the years. The Knuth, the whole Knuth, and nothing but the Knuth, so help me Codd. In the ALU on an 80186 Joined October 2011-
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“The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it’s pointless.” — Bram Cohen
“Maintenance is not a discrete activity, but a routine part of the entire development process.” — The Pragmatic Programmer
“Great software today is often preferable to perfect software tomorrow.” — The Pragmatic Programmer
“My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.” — P. J. Plauger
“Ten doublings is about a thousand, twenty doublings is about a million, and thirty doublings is about a billion.” — Jon Bentley
“Any time a programmer makes a decision about how to deal with data, how to average it or clean it, you’re imparting more of your own bias on it.” — Hannah Fry
“A successful test is one that breaks the software.” — Steve McConnell
“A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.” — Doug Linder
“Teaching peers is one of the best ways to develop mastery.” — Jeff Atwood
“If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.” — Alan Cooper
“Focus is a matter of deciding what things you’re not going to do.” — John Carmack
“The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.” — Alan Cooper
“Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.” — Alan Perlis
“Whenever we haven’t got enough information to make decisions for ourselves, we have a habit of copying the behaviour of those around us.” — Hannah Fry
“Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature.” — Kent Beck
“Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file.” — Louis Srygley
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on ai psychosis: as i watch engineers fall deeper into the belief that an amalgamation of mathematical probabilities somehow understands their codebase better than they do, i find myself thinking back to a time when software wasn’t built for hypergrowth, but simply to do x
“the danger isn’t that ai writes bad code- it’s that it makes writing unnecessary code 100% free” — @HarivanshRathi
“One accurate measurement is worth more than a thousand expert opinions.” — Grace Hopper
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