A collection of some of my favorite quotes, which also appear randomly in the sidebar:
Change is inevitable, as is resistance to change.
[Data] partitioning work is trying to put in guidelines and then slowly figure out what the impact is / how to unroll them. The suppression files tell the real story.
Be good to people for no reason
The worst decisions […] are ones that are arrived at quickly, but are just as quickly reversed, and thus the apparent speed turns into an illusion.
Code comes and goes. It gets refactored and deleted. Lessons taught to other developers live on. They survive longer than any feature or project.
How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.
Code is inherently incorrect. It’s always in a state of undiscovered failure.
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file.
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.