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#1 The more dogmatic you are about applying a design method, the fewer real-life problems you are going to solve – P.J. Plauger

#2 Let Ruby be Ruby. Let Java be Java. Let Python be Python. Don’t expect it to be Erlang, because it isn’t.

#3.1 Plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow. – Fred Brooks
#3.2 If you plan to throw one away, you will throw away two. – Craig Zerouni

#4 Requirements are like water. They’re easier to build on when they’re frozen. – Anonymous

#5 Embrace brevity, but do not sacrifice readability – Hal Fulton

#6 If you want to sell a cat to programmer, you have to tell him it’s object-oriented – Roger King

#7 No one language is the best tool for every programming task. A true programmer knows several languages.

#8 The penalty for failing to define the problem is that you waste a lot of time solving the wrong problem.  Steve McConnell

#9 If you know someone who wants to read 20,000 pages of documentation, kill him.

#10 When coding, think about the solution, not beauty. But when you’re done and the solution is not beautiful, then it is wrong.

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