Get that wrong and you’ll never recover.
— Guy Steele about namespaces
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
There’s no one programmer who does the work of ten other programmers. One uber-programmer does just as much work as one ordinary programmer. It’s just that the results solve ten times as many problems. Programming is fundamentally a design problem.
Once you label me, you negate me
— Soren Kierkegaard
Enterprise developers often complain about performance, but compared to real-time developers or supercomputer programmers, performance is not very important to them, and the fact that RDBMSs are so popular among them is proof of that.