30 Inspiring developers quotes with visuals

1. About good programmers

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand.

Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

2. Root cause

Fix the cause not the symptom.

3. Startup life

100% of people who think you’re crazy for building a startup have a boring life.

4. Code usage

Code will be written once, while it will be read multiple times.

5. Computers philosophy

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

6. Weekend work

Coding on the weekend is overrated.

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7. On efficiency

Simplicity is the soul of efficiency.

8. Upward compatible

I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.

9. Friday Deploys

Deploying on a Friday is just asking for a terrible weekend.

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10. Software maintenance

Software being done is like lawn being mowed.

11. Explaining Programming

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing … until it’s too late.

12. Copying code

As a software engineer, it’s 100% ok to plagiarize as long as it’s from yourself.

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13. Understanding tests

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

14. Engineers redundancy

Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right.

If everything did, you’d be out of a job.

15. Code Value

You say: Not all the code is worth testing

I hear: Not all the code is worth writing

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16. Invisible error

The best error message is the one that never shows up

17. Different kinds of programming languages

There are only two kinds of programming languages:

1. the ones nobody uses
2. the ones people always bitch about

18. Human emotions

Code scales easy, care doesn’t.

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19. User intentions

The most important property of a program is wether it accomplishes the intention of its user.

20. Free software

Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free.

21. User centered program

Write code to benefit your users, not for your convenience.

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22. Break programming rules

Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them.

23. Documenting code

Good code is it’s own best documentation.

24. On Building

1 hour of struggling to build something is probably equal to working trough 10 hours of a tutorial.

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25. Productive deleting code

On my most productive day, I’ve deleted a 1000 lines of code.

26. Programming guidelines

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

27. Parts of software development

People are often surprised when I tell them that writing code is just a small part of software development

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28. Code length

Coding is like poetry, it should be short and concise

29. Learning programming

Programming takes time. You need to be patient.

30. Finishing projects

Finishing projects is as important as starting them.

You will feel great after a project is done.

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