"Focus is a matter of deciding what things you’re not going to do." - John Carmack

“A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen.” - Kent Beck

Nowadays, any code you're responsible for that you haven't looked at probably was written by something else.

"Your personal character directly affects your ability to write computer programs. The characteristics that matter most are humility, curiosity, intellectual honesty, creativity and discipline, and enlightened laziness." - Steve McConnell

"Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else." - Eagleson's law

"First do it, then do it right, then do it better. [..] Write the messy first draft of the design doc. Ship the MVP that embarrasses you slightly. You’ll learn more from one week of real feedback than a month of theoretical debate." -- @addyosmani

if i gave you the formula for coca cola right now and told you to go sell it, 5 years down the line you would probably have 0% of the soft drink market share. with literally coke and yet everyone expects ai-coded apps to be in widespread use after less than a year

"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." – Dennis Ritchie

"You don't pay engineers to write code, you pay them to understand subtleties and edges of the problem. The code is incidental." – Ted Dziuba

'Once a new technology starts rolling, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.' - Stewart Brand (co-founder of The WELL)

Pinned in my computing lab at Leeds Uni: I do hate this computer I wish they'd go and sell it It won't do what I want Only what I tell it

To give context on age, Grace Hopper began computing at 38, completed the first compiler at 46, helped shape COBOL at 53, kept developing COBOL for the Navy in her 70s, retired from the Navy at 80 & then became a consultant for the Digital Equipment Corporation. v/@cooperx86 & photo v/Cynthia Johnson & Getty Images

Software developers: Do you ever use any mnemonics on a frequent basis? If so, what are they? (Like in music how you have stuff like "Every Good Boy Deserves Favor" to remember EGBDF.)

As AI-generated code becomes the norm, irreverent comments become a form of human watermarking.

Called shot: AI will help software engineers become product managers faster than product managers becoming software engineers

"The secret to optimization is changing the problem to make it easier to optimize." – John Carmack

"Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time." - Linus Torvalds