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Conway's law

Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure. --Melvin E. Conway

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In theory

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not. --Benjamin Brewster

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Debugging vs programming

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. --Edsger Dijkstra

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Telescopes

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. --Edsger Dijkstra

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Carpet

Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet. --Chris Heilmann

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Debugging

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. --Brian Kernighan

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Frozen

Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. --Edward V. Berard

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Optimization

It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code. --Bill Harlan

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Simplicity

Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better. --E.W. Djikstra

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A common fallacy

A common fallacy is to assume authors of incomprehensible code will be able to express themselves clearly in comments. --Kevlin Henney

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Measure performance

The lesson is: Even if you know exactly what is going on in your system, measure performance, don't speculate. You'll learn something, and nine times out of ten, it won't be that you were right! --Ron Jeffries

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Perfection

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. --Antoine de Saint Exupéry

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A crime movie

Debugging is like being the detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer. --Filipe Fortes

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Good code

Good code is its own best documentation. --Steve McConnell

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Developaralysis

I'm a victim of Developaralysis: the crippling sense that the software industry is evolving so fast that no one person can possibly keep up. --Jon Evans

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Man-month

What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months. --Fred Brooks

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Design patterns

Design patterns should not be applied indiscriminately. Often they achieve flexibility and variability by introducing additional levels of indirection. A design pattern should only be applied when the flexibility it affords is actually needed. --Erich Gamma

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Best practices

The methodologies and best practices used to develop software can be applied successfully to any challenge in life. --Walter O'Brien

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Development time

The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time. --Tom Cargill

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Requirements

Reducing a product's definition to a list of features and functions ignores the real opportunity - orchestrating technological capability to serve human needs and goals. --Alan Cooper

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