Quotes about FOSS, Programming, Software Design and Technology.

Q1.md

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

• John Woods (Most probably)

TAOUP_13

Rule of Repair: When you must fail, fail noisily and as soon as possible.
-ESR

TAOUP_23

Make it run, then make it right, then make it fast.
-Kent Beck

TAOUP_24

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code.
-Ken Thompson

TAOUP_99

"La perfection est atteinte non quand il ne reste rien à ajouter, mais quand il ne reste rien à enlever" ("Perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove".)
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

TCATB_1

Linus's Law: Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
- ESR, _The Cathedral & The Bazaar_

TCATB_2

Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch.
- ESR, _The Cathedral & The Bazaar_

TCATB_3

Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.
- ESR, _The Cathedral & The Bazaar_

TCATB_4

The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.
- ESR, _The Cathedral & The Bazaar_

TCATB_5.md

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

• ESR, The Cathedral & The Bazaar