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This is going to come off as grumpy, but it needs to be said: Stop showing people your junk.

We are happy each time we disagree, because we know we’re going to learn something new; it’s going to make some sparkle.

It’s late, I’m on my second decaf, and I’ve been putting off adding a terminal to Kale for days — convinced it’ll be the usual slog of incompatible libraries, StackOverflow spelunking, and documentation rabbit holes.

“Our goal is to inspire every person at Netflix to be excellent at their job.

If you want to catch trout, don’t fish in the bathtub.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit.

If you look at all of the C-level roles out there, the only one that has no template or definition is CTO.

If you don’t know where you’re going, you might not get there.

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

Those who built the visionary companies wisely understood that it is better to understand who you are than where you are going — for where you are going will almost certainly change —James C.

It is better to first get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats, and then figure out where to drive.

The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.

My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as “lines produced” but as “lines spent”.

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable.

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

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.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.