Valuable quotes

A collection of my favorite quotes.

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

The Bene Gesserit litany against fear Frank Herbert’s Dune

Programs are meant to be read by humans, and only incidentally for computers to execute.

Donald Knuth

The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.

Fred Brooks

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.

Charles Antony Richard Hoare

Invest in the abstraction, not the implementation. Abstractions can survive the barrage of changes from different implementations and new technologies.

Andrew Hunt & David Thomas

Practice is the best of all instructors.

Publilius Syrus

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Donald Knuth

We cannot possess what we do not understand.

Goethe

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.