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bits, 2 months ago to programming

It can be better to copy a little code than to pull in a big library for one function. Dependency hygiene trumps code reuse.

-- Rob Pike

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bits, 4 months ago to sysadmin

Any set of procedures, no matter how well intentioned or useful, that are too difficult to follow, will be circumvented.

-- Ravera's First Law of System Administration

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bits, 3 months ago to programming

The code you write makes you a programmer. The code you delete makes you a good one. The code you don't have to write makes you a great one.

-- Mario Fusco

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bits, 2 months ago to programming

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

-- Edsger W. Dijkstra

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bits, 4 months ago to programming

Nearly every complex solution to a programming problem that I have looked at carefully has turned out to be wrong.

-- Brent Welch

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bits, 4 months ago to programming

A program is portable to the extent that it can be easily moved to a new computing environment with much less effort than would be required to write it afresh.

-- W. Stan Brown

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bits, 4 months ago to programming

An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.

-- Bjarne Stroustrup

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bits, 4 months ago to programming

The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren’t there.

-- Gordon Bell

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bits, 2 months ago to programming

An evolving system increases its complexity unless work is done to reduce it.

-- Meir Lehman

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bits, 4 months ago to programming

Well-designed components are easy to replace. Eventually, they will be replaced by ones that are not so easy to replace.

-- Sustrik's Law

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bits, 4 months ago to programming

Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.

-- Keith Bostic

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bits, 4 months ago to programming

The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity, of mastering multitude and avoiding its bastard chaos as effectively as possible.

-- E. W. Dijkstra

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bits, 4 months ago to programming

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.

-- C.A.R. Hoare

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bits, 3 months ago to programming

Functions should do one thing. They should do it well. They should do it only.

-- Robert C. Martin

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bits, 3 months ago to programming

Simplicity is hard work. But in the long haul the person with a simpler system is gonna wipe the plate with you. Because they can change things when you are struggling to push elephants around.

-- Rich Hickey

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bits, 5 months ago to programming

The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.

-- Edsger W. Dijkstra

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bits, 4 months ago to programming

I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

-- Alan Kay

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bits, 4 months ago to programming

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

-- Brian Kernighan

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bits, 2 months ago to programming

The secret to building large apps is never build large apps. Break your applications into small pieces. Then, assemble those testable, bite-sized pieces into your big application.

-- Justin Meyer

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bits, 2 months ago to programming

Increasingly, people seem to interpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling - the incomprehensible should cause suspicion, not admiration. Possibly this results from the mistaken belief that using a mysterious device confers [extra] power on the user.

-- Niklaus Wirth

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bits, 2 months ago to programming

Our programming house is like a hoarder's delight: there's too much stuff in it everything is too big. We need too many people to do basic things.

-- Rich Hickey

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bits, 1 month ago to programming

Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn’t clarify the meaning, it destroys it.

-- Clay Shirky

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bits, 1 month ago to technology

The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.

-- Alan Kay

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bits, 1 month ago to programming

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what’s really going on to be scared.

-- P. J. Plauger, Computer Language, March 1983

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bits, 1 month ago to programming

Software obeys the law of gaseous expansion - it continues to grow until memory is completely filled.

-- Larry Gleason

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