More Good Programming Quotes, Part 4
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Published: 2020-01-20 13:56:02

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Here are more good programming quotes I have found since my [last post](https://dev.to/henrikwarne/more-good-programming-quotes-part-3-30em).

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### Microservices

“Microservices are just dynamic linking over HTTP”  
via @mononcqc

“kubernetes – turning things off and on again, at scale”  
@decimalator

### Full stack

“A full stack developer is just one function call away from a stack overflow developer.”  
@brainsmoke

dev 1: I’m full stack  
dev 2: pop  
dev 1: fuck  
@ctrlshifti

### Programming

“As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.”  
Dave Parnas

“Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.”  
Kent Beck

“Programming is nitpicking distilled into a profession.”  
@garybernhardt

“If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it may still have subtle differences only a domain expert really understands.”  
@rickasaurus

“A computer is like a mischievous genie. It will give you exactly what you ask for, but not always what you want.” – Joe Sondow

“You haven’t mastered a tool until you understand when it should not be used.”  
@kelseyhightower

“Mathematicians don’t have the ‘cache invalidation’ problem, so they go hard on fucking up naming things.”  
@tomaka17

“The plural of regex is regrets”  
@ifosteve

Knock, Knock.  
Who’s Race Condition!  
There?  
@justenwalker

A group of wolves is called a pack.  
A group of crows is called a murder.  
A group of developers is called a merge conflict.

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by legacy code”  
@HackerNewsOnion

### Other

echo ‘Hello, my username is imontoya, you kill -9 my $PPID, prepare to vi.’  
@climagic

“give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day. teach a man to phish, and you can win this free trip to hawaii by just entering your credit card details below.”  
@ctrlshifti

“Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence boils down to curiosity.” – Aaron Swartz

“Machine Learning can do anything you could train a dog to do – but you’re never totally sure what you trained the dog to do.”  
Benedict Evans

On testing:  
“we must struggle to develop a suspicious nature as well as a lively imagination.”  
Herbert Leeds and Gerald M. Weinberg, Computer Programming Fundamentals, 1961

“You fail 0% of the tests you don’t write.”  
@HackerNewsOnion

“Be so good they can’t gitignore you.”  
@iamdevloper

“I feel like Schrödinger would hate A/B testing.”  
@iamdevloper

A: dns record  
AA: battery  
AAA: battery  
AAAA: dns record  
@isotopp

### Twitter Bios

Here are parts of some programming-related Twitter bios that I thought were pretty clever.

“Nom de guerre: Colonel Data Corruption”  
@bcantrill

“I see problems where others see opportunities”  
(not sure where I saw this, but I am pretty sure it is a tester)

“I arrange bits of data in specific orders for a living”  
@LordPansar

“Indoor enthusiast”  
@codinghorror