bookmarks/QUOTES.md

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Sometimes it seems like 80% of my job is convincing decision makers to listen to the people who work for them. - Jesse James Garrett
• Software developers think their job is writing code. But it's not. Their job is to solve the customer's problem. Billy Hollis + [Video] Billy Hollis - CodeHeads Anonymous
• 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
• 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
• 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 - 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
• Poor quality code is a reflection of lack of respect we carry for what we do, often with out realizing it. Venkat Subramaniam
• Solving problems you probably don’t have creates more problems you definitely do - Mike Acton
• 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
• Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to. - Richard Branson
• Pour avoir l'attention de qqn il suffit de crier dans son oreille - Toby Cooper
• 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
• 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
• Your organisation should be adapted to your product, not the other way around. - Mike Veerman
• “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
• Technology is the easy part of automation. - Mike Veerman
• A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked - John Gall
• 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
• "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
• Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good. - Malcolm Gladwell
• You are not a team because you work together. You are a team because you trust, respect and care for each other. Vala Afshar
• If something is taboo, it's probably worth discussing. - Daily Zen
• People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily - Zig Ziglar
• "Surprise in movies and novels is good. Surprise in computer code is bad" - Patrick Burns
• A good professional places quality over quantity - Venkat Subramaniam
• The most impressive people I know are almost never mean, and the meanest people I know are almost never impressive. - Paul Graham
• Innovation does not require a plan, it requires courage / L'innovation c'est une désobéissance, pas un plan - Pierre Pezziardi
• The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated / On peut juger la grandeur et la valeur morale d'une nation à la façon dont elle traite ses animaux - Gandhi
• Sometimes, change is what we need most
• If you're struggling and your people are just sitting there watching you struggle... They aren't your people
• "Why are you so quiet ?" Because I am. That's how I function. I don't ask others "Why are you so noisy ? Why do you talk so much ?" It's rude.
• Sometimes the reason things are not happening to you is because you are the good thing that needs to happen to other people.
• It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad - Charles Eames