These are some famous, and less famous, quotes and proverbs that influenced me.
It’s not the domain experts knowledge that goes into production, it’s the assumptions of the developers that do.
Alberto Brandolini
You learn with your hands. You do not learn with your eyes.
Michael B. Paulson (ThePrimeagen) 2024
Optimalisatie is altijd belangrijker dan maximalisatie.
“Optimization is always more important than maximization.”
Leen Goorrissen - Natural Intelligence 2021
Het leven is niet eerlijk, maar jij kan dat wel zijn.
“Life isn’t fair, but you can be.”
Roman van Ree 2024
When you need to choose between “follow the shiny” and “follow the infrastructure”, always follow the infrastructure.
Amy Webb 2022
If it’s a core business function, do it yourself, no matter what.
Joel Spolsky 2001
If you want performance, stop doing so much.
Netflix pre-2020
When in development, it’s AI; When it works, it’s software.
Richard Campbell 2024
If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess.
Rod Michael
Growth, for the sake of growth, is the ideology of a cancer cell.
Edward Abbey (1995)
I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing. Not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.
Joanna Maciejewska 2024
There’s nothing more permanent than a temporary fix that works.
Loose transation of an old Russion proverb
You cannot engineer the all-knowing solution that makes all future problems easy.
Michael B. Paulson (ThePrimeagen) 2024
Agile is intended to be a moral compass, a set of ethical guidelines.
Ben from Fixing Software 2024
Walk softly, but carry a big stick.
David Heinemeier Hansson 2024
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
Jeff Bezos 1999
He who sets the sentence, must swing the sword.
Eddard Stark (Game of Thrones)
If builders built houses the way programmers build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg