Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable. -- Ralph Johnson

In C++ it’s harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow off your whole leg. -- Bjarne Stroustrup

Programming is learned by writing programs. -- Brian Kernighan

We like to think we spend our time power typing, but we actually spend most of our time staring into the abyss. -- Douglas Crockford

Writing in C or C++ is like running a chainsaw with all the safety guards removed. -- Bob Gray

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do. -- Donald Knuth

Repetition is the root of all software evil. -- Martin Fowler

The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit. -- Anonymous

Good programmers use their brains, but good guidelines save us having to think out every case. -- Francis Glassborow

There’s nothing more permanent than a temporary hack. -- Kyle Simpson

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. -- Oscar Wilde

Fix the cause, not the symptom. -- Steve Maguire

It can be better to copy a little code than to pull in a big library for one function. Dependency hygiene trumps code reuse. -- Rob Pyke

If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likable person. -- Alan Cooper

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then start on the first one. -- Mark Twain

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

Startup time for Zed (left) vs. VS Code (right) VS Code takes seconds, Zed takes frames 😓

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming. Feedback is the treatment. - Kent Beck

Before software can be reusable, it first has to be usable. - Ralph Johnson

The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit. - Anonymous