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“With proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.”
“The job of the average manager requires a shift in focus every few minutes. The job of the average software developer requires that the developer not shift focus more often than every few hours.”
“A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn’t work.”
“The software isn’t finished until the last user is dead.”
“There is an old saying with software that three years from now, no one will remember if you shipped an awesome software release a few months late. What customers will still remember three years from now is if you shipped a software release that wasn’t ready a few months too soon. It takes multiple product releases to change people’s quality perception about one bad release.”
“The cost of adding a feature isn’t just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion.”
“Weeks of programming can save you hours of planning.”
“Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: Feedback is the treament.”
“Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.”