* Good code needs motivation, shitty code just needs time.
* Choosing a language because it has cheaper developers is like building your house with Lego so you can hire anyone as a construction worker.
* I cannot fix that bug... I'm busy writing a new one.
* CI is a practice, not a tool, and requires discipline from the development team.
* Red is the new green
* Do it, with <insert the name of a CI/CD tool here>, there is no try
* It doesn't matter who you are, only what you will become
* If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture
* Truth can only be found in one place: the code
* Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. - Richard Feynman
* Let's clarify : Jira is not Agile, Open Source is not Free, Using cloud is not DevOps, Rituals is not Scrum, Developed is not Done" Lemi Orhan Ergin. [Source](https://twitter.com/lemiorhan/status/859158123722010628)
* Software being 'Done' is like lawn being 'Mowed'. - Jim Benson
* React to someone's mistake and you are part of the problem. Support and help them, and you are part of the solution.
* Ask a programmer to review 10 lines of code, he'll find 10 issues. Ask him to do 500 lines and he'll say it looks good. [Source](https://twitter.com/girayozil/statuses/306836785739210752)
* In my experience teams that don't do scrum 'properly' work better. They focus more on their productivity than getting the process right - [Daniel Grant](https://twitter.com/djgrant_/statuses/436536267330039809)
* One bad programmer can easily create two new jobs a year - David Parnas
* How to stop time: kiss. How to travel in time: read. How to escape time: music. How to feel time: write. How to waste time: social media. - [Matt Haig](https://twitter.com/matthaig1/statuses/450238719858323456)
* Sometimes it seems like 80% of my job is convincing decision makers to listen to the people who work for them. - [Jesse James Garrett](https://twitter.com/jjg/statuses/474987558154153984)
* Software developers think their job is writing code. But it's not. Their job is to solve the customer's problem. [Billy Hollis](https://blog.codinghorror.com/can-your-team-pass-the-elevator-test/) + [Video] [Billy Hollis - CodeHeads Anonymous](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiGsw_k8JhY)
* It's not about being first to market, it's about being the best. / It's Never Too Late / Just do it better. [The Next Web](https://twitter.com/Shaun_Springer/statuses/498529232545669121)
* The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise. - Edsger W. Dijkstra
* Le talent ça n'existe pas. Le talent c'est avoir envie de faire quelque chose / Talent does not exist. Talent is only hard work . - [Jacques Brel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_ylq9CU2lg)
* Le succès vient souvent d’un faux pas dans la bonne direction.  / Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction - Al Bernstein
* [NUS Computing](http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~damithch/pages/SE-quotes.htm?type=bestQuotes) - Quotes for Software Engineers
* I have a feeling that each task I strike off on my todo list gives birth to a few more tasks. - [Venkat Subramaniam](https://twitter.com/venkat_s/status/526145900515962880)
* Poor quality code is a reflection of lack of respect we carry for what we do, often with out realizing it. [Venkat Subramaniam](https://twitter.com/venkat_s/statuses/521625754485157889)
* Solving problems you probably don’t have creates more problems you definitely do - [Mike Acton](https://www.slideshare.net/cellperformance/data-oriented-design-and-c)
* Enemies of creativity: 1 desire to please all 2 big ego 3 self-doubt 4 control 5 fear of failure 6 process rigor 7 impatience 8 abundance. - [Vala Afshar](https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/statuses/538067497023311872)
* Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to. - [Richard Branson](https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/statuses/538086077861748736)
* Pour avoir l'attention de qqn il suffit de crier dans son oreille - [Toby Cooper](https://twitter.com/tkoopa/statuses/532992339003068416)
* Punctuality is something you regret when everyone else does not care and is late / La ponctualité c'est un truc que tu regrettes quand t'es le seul con à être arrivé à l'heure au rendez-vous - [MorganGeek](https://twitter.com/MorganGeek/statuses/537579386778959873)
* The backlog is a tool for development, not planning. Throw it away monthly. If you fear forgetting something, it's prob. not that important. - [Mike Veerman](https://twitter.com/mikeveerman/status/920274432148561920)
* Your organisation should be adapted to your product, not the other way around. - [Mike Veerman](https://twitter.com/mikeveerman/status/920937671287066624)
* “Employees don’t quit companies; they quit managers.” Yes, and they also _stay on_ for managers. Let great managers leave at your peril. - [Jochen Wolters](https://twitter.com/jochenWolters/status/918685909549178882)
* Technology is the easy part of automation. - [Mike Veerman](https://twitter.com/mikeveerman/status/921439736107098115)
* A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked - [John Gall](https://twitter.com/abt_programming/statuses/537307993151246336)
* If someone tell you he understand your build process, you probably have to explain him better / Si quelqu'un comprend notre processus de build, c'est qu'on lui a pas bien expliqué.... [MorganGeek](https://twitter.com/MorganGeek/statuses/537192681609658368)
* "Your idea is better, but we're going to ignore it, since that's not the way we've always done it," said no good leader, ever. - [Vala Afshar](https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/statuses/537080571693105152)
* Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good. - [Malcolm Gladwell](https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/statuses/537075225352212480)