“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power”
— Robert G. Ingersoll
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“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, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.”
— Brian Kernighan, The Elements of Programming Style
The Grug Brained Developer
grugbrain.dev
Read this for the third time and it still lands. Complexity very, very bad. Grug is right more often than I would like to admit.
“A little copying is better than a little dependency.”
— Rob Pike, Go Proverbs
“The most damaging phrase in the language is: ‘It’s always been done that way.’”
— Grace Hopper
“Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.”
— Edsger Dijkstra
“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”
— Linus Torvalds
“There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.”
— Phil Karlton
“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”
— Harold Abelson
“Premature optimization is the root of all evil.”
— Donald Knuth
“The best error message is the one that never shows up.”
— Thomas Fuchs
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry