Channel: quotes
“the hedgehog is too proud a bird to fly without a kick” - Russian proverb
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
- General Omar Bradley
Muphry’s law - Wikipedia
Muphry’s law is an adage that states: “If you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written.” The name is a deliberate misspelling of “Murphy’s law”.
Only have structural changes or behavioural changes in a single PR
- Kent Beck
One hundred idiots come up with one hundred idiotic plans and execute them. Ninety nine naturally fail. One of them succeeds through sheer luck and believes they are a genius. - paraphrased from Ian M. Banks
Reusability Trap - 250bpm
“Well-designed components are easy to replace. Eventually, they will be replaced by ones that are not so easy to replace.”
“I’m now considering Diarrhea Driven Development: shit out as much as fast as you can and make it as viral and sticky as possible” - HN comment
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
- Stephen King
“Don’t be prideful with any excellence that is not your own” - Epictetus
One of the risks of being quiet is that other people can fill your silence with their own interpretation: You’re bored. You’re depressed. You’re shy. You’re stuck up. You’re judgmental. When others can’t read us, they write their own story—not always one we choose or that’s true to who we are.
- Sophia Dembling, The Introvert’s Way
The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.
- Edsger W. Dijkstra
“Don’t be afraid of making mistakes; just be afraid of not learning from them.” - Thomas Edison