“Truth can only be found in one place => the code.” ― Robert C. Martin
“Indeed, the ratio of time spent reading versus writing is well over 10 to 1.
We are constantly reading old code as part of the effort to write new code. …[Therefore,]
making it easy to read makes it easier to write.”― Robert C. Martin
“Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It’s less predictable, it’s more fun, and it comes without a 30-day,
money-back guarantee.”― Steve McConnell
“Engineering is a profession that can do the job of almost all other professions.”― Amit Kalantri
“Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.”― Tony Hoare
“A boat without a captain is nothing more than a floating waiting room: unless someone grabs the rudder and starts the engine, it’s just going to drift along aimlessly with the current. A piece of software is just like that boat: if no one pilots it, you’re left with a group of engineers burning up valuable time, just sitting around waiting for something to happen (or worse, still writing code that you don’t need).”― Titus Winters
As an engineer, you might wield more power than you realize: the power to literally change society. It’s critical that on your journey to becoming an exceptional engineer, you understand the innate responsibility needed to exercise power without causing harm. The first step is to recognize the default state of your bias caused by many societal and educational factors. After you recognize this, you’ll be able to consider the often-forgotten use cases or users who can benefit or be harmed by the products you build.”
― Titus Winters
Life would be much easier if I had the source code.(source)
“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” (source)
“In a room full of top software designers, if two agree on the same thing, that’s a majority.” (source)
“One: Demonstrations always crash. And two: The probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people
“Programming is like sex: One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.” (source)
“Programming can be fun, and so can cryptography; however, they should not be combined.” (source)
“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.” (source)
“Copy-and-Paste was programmed by programmers for programmers actually.” (source)
“Always code as if the person who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.” (source)
“Programmer: A machine that turns coffee into code.” (source)
“Computers are fast; programmers keep it slow.” (source)
“When I wrote this code, only God and I understood what I did. Now only God knows.” (source)
“A son asked his father (a programmer) why the sun rises in the east, and sets in the west. His response? It works, don’t touch!” (source)
“How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb? None, that’s a hardware problem.” (source)
My code never has bugs, it just develops random unexpected features.(source)
A programmer is a person who fixed a problem that you don’t know you have, in a way you don’t understand.(source)
“Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.” (source)
“I’ve finally learned what upward compatible means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.” (source)
“Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.” (source)
“Documentation is like sex: When it is bad, it is better than nothing. When it is good, it is really, really good.” (source)
“Software undergoes beta testing shortly before it’s released. Beta is Latin for still doesn’t work.” (source)
If at first, you don’t succeed, you must be a programmer.(source)
Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.(source)
watching.” (source)
“A program is never less than 90% complete and never more than 95% complete.” (source)
“In a software project team of ten, there are probably three people who produce enough defects to make them net-negative producers.” (source)
If God is a programmer then there is no confusion Devil is a hacker. (source)
Once you start programming, you no longer have a life. (source)
Eat, Sleep, Code, Repeat. (source)
There’s no place like 127.0.0.1 (source)
Being a good programmer is 3% talent & 97% not being distracted by the internet. (source)
My code doesn’t always work, but when it does I don’t know why. (source)
God is real unless declared as an integer. (source)
If you want to treat women as objects, do it with class. (source)