Collected wisdom about software development.
“The purpose of software engineering is to control complexity, not to create it.”
Source: Jon L. Bentley, Programming Pearls
“Understand the difference between a programmer and an engineer. A programmer writes code and an engineer builds things that work. And they're not the same thing.”
Source: Rob Pike
- 10 Habits of a Good Programmer by Pieter Hintjens
"Concepts every programmer should know & use but few do: actors, state machines, model languages."
Source: Pieter Hintjens
"People think a programming language should be a complicated ecosystem. I don't want to learn an ecosystem for a year, I just want to put 3D graphics on there."
Source: Jonathan Blow
"We shouldn't be miserable like many of us are,"
Source: Jonathan Blow