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.
Programs are meant to be read by humans, and only incidentally for computers to execute.
The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.
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.
Invest in the abstraction, not the implementation. Abstractions can survive the barrage of changes from different implementations and new technologies.
Practice is the best of all instructors.
Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
We cannot possess what we do not understand.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.