Programming Wisdom

Programming wisdom and quotes throughout the years.

The Knuth, the whole Knuth, and nothing but the Knuth, so help me Codd.

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

@chrisparkX Can you confirm that contray to what influencers are saying this does *not* mean you can read posts from lists you follow at $0.001 per post?

`owned_lists` solely returns list metadata, and not the posts, and /lists/../tweets is not in the owned reads list.

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

"Your personal character directly affects your ability to write computer programs. The characteristics that matter most are humility, curiosity, intellectual honesty, creativity and discipline, and enlightened laziness." - Steve McConnell

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

"Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else." - Eagleson's law

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

"First do it, then do it right, then do it better. [..] Write the messy first draft of the design doc. Ship the MVP that embarrasses you slightly. You’ll learn more from one week of real feedback than a month of theoretical debate." -- @addyosmani

[Air Katakana @airkatakana]

if i gave you the formula for coca cola right now and told you to go sell it, 5 years down the line you would probably have 0% of the soft drink market share. with literally coke

and yet everyone expects ai-coded apps to be in widespread use after less than a year

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." – Dennis Ritchie

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

"You don't pay engineers to write code, you pay them to understand subtleties and edges of the problem. The code is incidental." – Ted Dziuba

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

'Once a new technology starts rolling, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.' - Stewart Brand (co-founder of The WELL)

[Ted Moyses @TedMoyses]

@CodeWisdom Pinned in my computing lab at Leeds Uni:

I do hate this computer
I wish they'd go and sell it
It won't do what I want
Only what I tell it

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

This has become even more important with AI. Possibly even a step further: it might do something you didn't tell it to do 😂

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

'A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.' - Joseph Weizenbaum

[MIT CSAIL @MIT_CSAIL]

To give context on age, Grace Hopper began computing at 38, completed the first compiler at 46, helped shape COBOL at 53, kept developing COBOL for the Navy in her 70s, retired from the Navy at 80 & then became a consultant for the Digital Equipment Corporation.

v/@cooperx86 & photo v/Cynthia Johnson & Getty Images

[Peter Cooper @cooperx86]

Software developers: Do you ever use any mnemonics on a frequent basis? If so, what are they?

(Like in music how you have stuff like "Every Good Boy Deserves Favor" to remember EGBDF.)

[Peter Cooper @cooperx86]

As AI-generated code becomes the norm, irreverent comments become a form of human watermarking.

[Jake @JustJake]

Called shot:

AI will help software engineers become product managers faster than product managers becoming software engineers

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

"The secret to optimization is changing the problem to make it easier to optimize." – John Carmack

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

@cooperx86 Grace, not you.

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

@cooperx86 Still our ultimate programming hero.

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

"Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time." - Linus Torvalds

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

@RealEmirHan I hate every ape I see, from chimpan-A to chimpan-Z. No, you'll never make a monkey out of me.