Quotes

LLMs turn 10x developers into 100x while turning 1x developers into 10x. LLMs also turn -1x developers into -10x developers, and your -10x developers into -100x developers.

Make it work, make it right, make it fast.

The only way to go fast is to go well.

Aim for the heavens, land in the clouds.

I'm going to carry the boats and the logs.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

This too shall pass.

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

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.

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.

The best code is no code at all. Every new line of code you willingly bring into the world is code that has to be debugged, code that has to be read and understood, code that has to be supported.