IT Quotes FTR

Constantin De La Roche
2 min readMay 1, 2021

“The only way go to fast, is to go well.” — Uncle Bob

“In the cloud you want to go, the twelve factors you must respect.” — Master Yoda

“Don’t make me think.” — Steve Krug

“First make it works, then make it right.” — Uncle Bob

“Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free.” — Linus Torvalds

“You may be able to make a mess in a hurry, but you can’t do real good job in a hurry.” —Uncle Bob

“Do one thing, and do it well” — The Unix philosophy, Ken Thompson

“Don’t code for yourself, code for the others.”

“Better train people and risk they leave than do nothing and risk they stay.”

>>> import this
The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters
Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
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Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie
Robert Martin, AKA Uncle Bob — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecIWPzGEbFc

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