Favorite Quotes

A collection of some of my favorite quotes, which also appear randomly in the sidebar:

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Bad code scales faster than good code.

Life is a series of coming together and falling apart.
We cannot stop the waves, but we can learn how to ride them.
We are not our thoughts, we are observers of them.
We are not our emotions, we are observers of them.

— Unknown, From my Personal Notes

To solve a problem, you must change something.

— Fred Nickols, Solution Engineering – An Introduction: Basic Terms, Concepts and Process

Change is inevitable, as is resistance to change.

— Self

[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.

— Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

Code is inherently incorrect. It’s always in a state of undiscovered failure.

— Kerri Miller, RubyConf 2020 Day 2 Keynote: If You Can Move It, It Isn’t Broken
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