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Do you have any entry proposal(s) or you are just complaining without a solution?

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I'm not the original commenter, but I have some:

"To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge." – Grace Hopper

"Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability." – Marissa Mayer

"I’ve always objected to doing anything over again if I had already done it once." – Grace Hopper

"The best icons are more like traffic signs than graphic illustrations." – Susan Kare

"You haven't mastered a tool until you understand when it should not be used." – Kelsey Hightower

"Some problems solve themselves if you are patient enough." – Jaana Dogan

"If too many users are wrong, it's probably your fault [..] If a bunch of people trip over the same thing, maybe it's not them. Maybe it's your product, or maybe it's just you." – Rachel Kroll

“Falling in love with code means falling in love with problem solving and being a part of a forever ongoing conversation.” - Kathryn Barrett

"The best programs are the ones written when the programmer is supposed to be working on something else." - Melinda Varian

"Writing software as if we are the only person that ever has to comprehend it is one of the biggest mistakes and false assumptions that can be made." - Karolina Szczur

"Sometimes it's better to leave something alone, to pause, and that's very true of programming." - Joyce Wheeler

"The purpose of software engineering is to control complexity, not to create it." - Dr. Pamela Zave


"Hey, we’re engineering too" - Margaret Hamilton, coining the term "Software Engineering"


That's a great one. If only it were followed in reality instead of in the breach.


>"The purpose of software engineering is to control complexity, not to create it." - Dr. Pamela Zave

That's a really good advice


http://www.pamelazave.com/

Her homepage and a lot of writings. Very good resource if you've not been there before.


"They told me computers could only do arithmetic" is attributed to Grace Hopper.




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