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You can't write perfect software. Software can't be perfect. Protect your code and users from the inevitable errors.

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“Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.” ― Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus

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Costly tools don't produce better designs. Beware of vendor hype, industry dogma, and the aura of the price tag. Judge tools on their merits.

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Program close to the problem domain. Design and code in your user's language.

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“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.” ― Richard P. Feynman

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If programmers were electricians, parallel programmers would be bomb disposal experts. Both cut wires. - Bartosz Milewski

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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

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Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.Therfore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. - Rajanand

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“It isn’t events themselves that disturb people, but only their judgments about them.” —Epictetus

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“Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.” -Bil Keane

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The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time. - Tom Cargill

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Why do we never have time to do it right, but always have time to do it over?

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“Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation. Silence is the respite of the confident and the strong.” ― Ryan Holiday

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Learn a text manipulation language. You spend a large part of each day working with text. Why not have the computer do some of it for you?

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“To accuse others for one's own misfortune is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.” ― Epictetus

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Some things are better done than described. Don't fall into the specification spiral - at some point you need to start coding.

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Eliminate effects between unrelated things. Design components that are self-contained, independent, and have a single, well-defined purpose.

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“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” ― Richard Feynmann

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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. - Richard Feynman

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A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen

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