@mmaug You're secretly Martin Fowler.

"Most won't care about the craft. Cherish the ones that do, meet the rest where they are." – Chris Kiehl

"Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back." – Unknown

“Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence boils down to curiosity.” - Aaron Swartz

"Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking." – Unknown

"Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do." – John Carmack

"Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter." – Eric Raymond

"There are only two hard problems in distributed systems: 2. Exactly-once delivery 1. Guaranteed order of messages 2. Exactly-once delivery." – Mathias Verraes

@aidenybai Robin Wieruch @rwieruch

"Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out." - Chris Pine

"Every great developer you know got there by solving problems they were unqualified to solve until they actually did it." - Patrick McKenzie

@CodeWithWhy Indeed, there is also this idea.

"If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t matter how fast it doesn’t work." – Mich Ravera

Still true in 2025

"Naming things is easy. Living with those names is the hard part." – Anon

@elonmusk "Europeans generally pronounce my name the right way ('Nick-louse Veert'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nickel's Worth.' This is to say that Europeans call me by name, but Americans call me by value." – Niklaus Wirth

"We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins." – Ellen Ullman

"You haven't mastered a tool until you understand when it should not be used." – Kelsey Hightower