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software-quotes

Fools ignore complexity; pragmatists suffer it; experts avoid it;
geniuses remove it.

Alan Perlis

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People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the
actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things 
that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.

Donald Knuth

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Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available,
then they will create their own problems.

Scott Adams

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Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent 
psychopath who knows where you live.

Martin Golding

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First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.

John Johnson

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The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. 
He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks 
like the plague.

Edsger Dijkstra

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Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write 
code that humans can understand.

Martin Fowler

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Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are 
copies of the communication structures of these organizations.

Melvin Conway

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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Alan Perlis

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Don't make the user provide information that the system already knows.

Rick Lemons

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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

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If you can't deploy your services independently then they aren't microservices.

Daniel Bryant

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The Twelve Factors

Factor 1: Codebase
One codebase tracked in revision control, many deploys

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The Twelve Factors

Factor 2: Dependencies
Explicitly declare and isolate dependencies

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The Twelve Factors

Factor 3: Config
Store config in the environment

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The Twelve Factors

Factor 4: Backing services
Treat backing services as attached resources

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The Twelve Factors

Factor 5: Build, release, run
Strictly separate build and run stages

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The Twelve Factors

Factor 6: Processes
Execute the app as one or more stateless processes

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The Twelve Factors

Factor 7: Port binding
Export services via port binding

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The Twelve Factors

Factor 8: Concurrency
Scale out via the process model

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The Twelve Factors

Factor 9: Disposability
Maximize robustness with fast startup and graceful shutdown

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The Twelve Factors

Factor 10: Dev/prod parity
Keep development, staging, and production as similar as possible

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The Twelve Factors

Factor 11: Logs
Treat logs as event streams

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The Twelve Factors

Factor 12: Admin processes
Run admin/management tasks as one-off processes

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At Google, one of our favorite mottoes is "Failure is an option." It's widely 
recognized that if you're not failing now and then, you're not being innovative 
enough or taking enough risks.

Brian W. Fitzpatrick
Debugging Teams

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Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it's bad.

Cory House

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Design is choosing how you will fail.

Ron Fein

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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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Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show 
their absence!

Edsger Dijkstra

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The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is 
wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to a 
significant degree of detail by a single individual, should probably not be 
built.

Niklaus Wirth

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Perfection (in design) is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but 
rather when there is nothing more to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead
of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to to, let us
concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to
do.

Donald Knuth

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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.

Ralph Johnson

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The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price
which the very rich may find hard to pay.

C.A.R. Hoare

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Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.

C.A.R. Hoare

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There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so
simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make
it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is
far more difficult.

C.A.R. Hoare

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Inside every large program, there is a small program trying to get out.

C.A.R. Hoare

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The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least
until we've finished building it.

Anonymous

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Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.

Bo Leuf, Ward Cunningham
The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web

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A good way to stay flexible is to write less code.

Andrew Hunt, David Thomas
Pragmatic Programmer

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Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is
supposed to do, then everything else about it matters little.

Bertrand Meyer

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When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.

Richard Pattis

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Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design
and build durable, usable, dependable software.

Larry Constantine

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The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure 
thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by 
exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to 
polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.

Fred Brooks

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The purpose of software engineering is to control complexity, not to create it.

Pamela Zave

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Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products 
difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it 
causes end-user and administrator frustration.

Ray Ozzie

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A designer knows that he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left
to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and 
discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated. 

Edsger W. Dijkstra

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The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.

William Gibson

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I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference 
in 1965 ... This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system 
crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the 
last forty years.

C.A.R. Hoare

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A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and 
literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an 
algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.

Donald Knuth