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Category: Fortunes

  • Plans and planning

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    Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. — Dwight Eisenhower.

  • Where to begin?

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    Begin anywhere. — John Cage.

  • Cunningham’s Law

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    The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong answer. — Cunningham’s Law.

  • Roots and fruits

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    The roots of education are bitter, but the fruits are sweet. — Attributed to Aristotle.

  • Routine things

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    High performing teams do routine things in an outstanding manner, routinely. — Ann Dunwoody, USA’s first female 4-star general. At A8C’s Grand Meetup, 2018.

  • Dare to know

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    Have the courage to use your own understanding. — Kant, What is enlightenment?

  • Team and ideas

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    Give a good idea to a mediocre team, and they will screw it up. Give a mediocre idea to a great team, and they will either fix it or come up with something better. If you get the team right, chances are that they’ll get the ideas right. — Creativity, Ed Catmull.

  • Who to write code for?

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    Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. — SICP, preface to the 1st edition.

  • To become an architect

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    To became a member of the community of architects requires an ability to learn to view the world as an architect and to use architect’s tools in a professional way. This can happen only by observing and interacting with experienced architects within the context of a studio. — Internet, innovation and OpenSource: Actors in the…

  • The new

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    The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. The new needs friends. — Ratatouille, Anton Ego.

  • Chairs and motivation

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    Get a good chair, because you can’t always be motivated, and sometimes you have to sit on it until you’re done. — The grandfather of a friend, who had a work ethic that I share.

  • Architecture astronauts

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    When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. — Joel Spolsky, Don’t let architecture astronauts scare you.

  • Make something well

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    To learn to make something well can take your whole life. And it’s worth it. — Ursula K. Le Guin.

  • Change and irrelevance

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    If you dislike change, you’re going to dislike irrelevance even more. — Eric Shinseki. Hat tip: Ann Dunwoody, Automattic Grand Meetup 2018.

  • The UNIX way, resurfaced

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    Make it work, make it right, make it fast. — The UNIX way, resurfaced decades later by Kent Beck.

  • Two small jumps

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    It seems to be much easier to make two small jumps than the one big jump in any kind of mental thinking. — Creative Thinking at Bell Labs (1952), Claude Shannon.

  • Vaccine for fuzzy thinking

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    Objectives are like a vaccine for fuzzy thinking. — Why the secret to success is setting the right goals, John Doerr.

  • React before React

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    While it might look like an overnight success in hindsight, the story of React is actually a great example of how new ideas often need to go through several rounds of refinement, iteration, and course correction over a long period of time before reaching their full potential. – Our first 50.000 stars.

  • Dumb Redux

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    Concepts are the real win, and they can be expressed in many different ways. – Dumb Redux, Tom MacWright.

  • Compare workflows, not frameworks

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    In general, comparing frameworks in terms of features seems inferior to examining the model it imposes on the programmer. The latter will inform you about how well the code will fare over time as the product matures and the team grows, but the former won’t. It will also empower you to foresee what the evolutionary…

  • Professional corner cutting

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    Own your decisions. Understand the customer’s needs. Don’t be lazy. – Professional corner cutting, Havoc Pennington. Aka: how to become a better programmer.

  • So create

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    When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow & exclude people. So create. – Why The Lucky Stiff

  • El signo de la vitalidad

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    El signo de la vitalidad no es durar, sino renacer y adaptarse. – El milagro Mondragón, José María Arizmendarrieta.