Quotes

Various quotes I like to use and spread.

The most important thing is learning. The way I learn is to have a thought, then test it out to see if it is a good thought. Code is the best way I know of to do this. Code isn’t swayed by the power and logic of rhetoric. Code isn’t impressed by college degrees or large salaries. Code just sits there, happily doing exactly what you told it to do. If that isn’t what you thought you told it to do, that’s your problem.

— Kent Beck in Extreme Programming Explained

The Best Code is No Code At All.

— Jeff Atwood in blog post

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

— Martin Fowler in Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

— Peter Drucker

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

— Harold Abelson in “Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs”

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.

— Phil Karlton

Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.

— Randy Pausch in “The Last Lecture”

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

— W. Edwards Deming

Be everything to everybody and you’ll be nothing for yourself.

— John Rushton

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

— John Lennon

The more you care about the outcome, the harder it feels to achieve. The less you care, the more naturally it comes to you.

— Mark Manson about Procrastination

Music is the soundtrack of our lives.

— Dick Clark

Как мотивировать себя что-то делать? Да никак, оставайтесь в жопе!

— Артемий Лебедев

Умей поставить, в радостной надежде,
Но карту все, что накопил с трудом,
Все проиграть и нищим стать, как прежде,
И никогда не пожалеть о том.

— Редьярд Киплинг, “Заповедь”

Если вы не заплатили за товар, то товар — это вы.

— Неизвестный автор