Words of Wisdom

1. Release early, release often! (Source: Eric S. Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, 1997)
2. Ask "why" until you have all the answers.
3. Program to the API. APIs are hard to change. design them properly upfront.
4. If you don't have the time do do it properly now, what makes you think you will have the time later to go back and fix it? (Source attributed to Basket Ball coach John Wooden)
5. Hope is not a Strategy (Source: Google SRE Books)
6. No surprises! (Source: Goldman Sachs)
7. The key to making programs fast is to make them do practically nothing. (Mike Haertel)
8. Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent
9. You can't manage time. You can manage how you allocate it.
10. Frustration is your inability to make change happen (Gitte Klitgaard)
11. Everybody dies but not everybody lives.
12. Fail to plan - plan to fail
13. All models are wrong, but some are useful (Source: George E.P. Box)
14. There are only 02 hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things and off by 1 errors.