“If you provide an API client that doesn’t include rate limiting, you don’t really have an API client. You’ve got an exception generator with a remote timer.” — Richard Schneeman
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Programming Wisdom✓
@CodeWisdom
Programming wisdom and quotes throughout the years. The Knuth, the whole Knuth, and nothing but the Knuth, so help me Codd.
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- “The best programs are the ones written when the programmer is supposed to be working on something else.” — Melinda Varian1192168.8K
- “The best learners are the people who push through the discomfort of being objectively bad at something.” — Tommy Collison02220410.2K
- “Security is like Tetris: Your successes disappear but your failures pile up.” — Mikko Hyppönen511569628.1K
- “We are no longer securing computers—we are securing society.” — Mikko Hyppönen112608.9K
- “Rarely is anyone thanked for the work they did to prevent the disaster that didn’t happen.” — Mikko Hyppönen1215794627.9K
- “Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.” — Laurence J. Peter02517310K
- “I’m not a great programmer; I’m just a good programmer with great habits.” — Kent Beck0231418.9K
- “Sometimes, the elegant implementation is a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.” — John Carmack33330010.2K
- “The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.” — Bjarne Stroustrup1392489.7K
- “Learn not to add too many features right away, and get the core idea built and tested.” — Leah Culver1221638.9K
- “A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for. Sail out to sea and do new things.” — Grace Hopper1242119.8K
- “The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it’s pointless.” — Bram Cohen64234511.6K
- “Maintenance is not a discrete activity, but a routine part of the entire development process.” — The Pragmatic Programmer1241709.5K
- “Great software today is often preferable to perfect software tomorrow.” — The Pragmatic Programmer42524010.3K
- “My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.” — P. J. Plauger3241569K
- “Ten doublings is about a thousand, twenty doublings is about a million, and thirty doublings is about a billion.” — Jon Bentley14378.6K
- “Any time a programmer makes a decision about how to deal with data, how to average it or clean it, you’re imparting more of your own bias on it.” — Hannah Fry1191108.5K
- “A successful test is one that breaks the software.” — Steve McConnell1202339.4K
- “Teaching peers is one of the best ways to develop mastery.” — Jeff Atwood2241678.6K
- “A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.” — Doug Linder231691.7K32K