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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To give context on age, Grace Hopper began computing at 38, completed the first compiler at 46, helped shape COBOL at 53, kept developing COBOL for the Navy in her 70s, retired from the Navy at 80 & then became a consultant for the Digital Equipment Corporation. v/@cooperx86 &…
Software developers: Do you ever use any mnemonics on a frequent basis? If so, what are they? (Like in music how you have stuff like "Every Good Boy Deserves Favor" to remember EGBDF.)
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"The secret to optimization is changing the problem to make it easier to optimize." – John Carmack
"Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time." - Linus Torvalds
"We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run." – Amara's Law
"Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding." - Burt Rutan
"Most won't care about the craft. Cherish the ones that do, meet the rest where they are." – Chris Kiehl
"Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work." – Martin Fowler
"Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back." – Unknown
“Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence boils down to curiosity.” - Aaron Swartz
"Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking." – Unknown
"Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do." – John Carmack
"Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter." – Eric Raymond
"There are only two hard problems in distributed systems: 2. Exactly-once delivery 1. Guaranteed order of messages 2. Exactly-once delivery." – Mathias Verraes
"Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out." - Chris Pine
"Every great developer you know got there by solving problems they were unqualified to solve until they actually did it." - Patrick McKenzie

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