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  • 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 dun 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 dont 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