Practice makes perfect.
“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.”
Yogi Berra
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That is probably the most important thing I’ve learned in almost 30 years in IT: there is no single “best” way, there is no single ‘best’ approach for every problem.
Tom Kyte - Time-out and Thanks
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. - Victor Hugo
Het is leuk om dingen niet te kunnen, want dan kun je iets nieuws leren.
Omdenken
Succes is soms het resultaat van een hele reeks mislukkingen. (Vincent van Gogh)
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“You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches.”
“Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.”
Sir Terry Pratchett
I've failed over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
“Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.”
Anne Frank 12 June 1929 – early March 1945.
The user is always right, you just need to agree on the formulation
A small improvement multiplied by a large amount can make a difference
Richard Foote …
What say developers / users ? (Tom Kyte)
Developers : it works, but it's slow
Users : it does not work, because it's slow
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Bewondering moet ook een rol hebben gespeeld. Hij behaalde geen meerderheid, maar hij kreeg wel iedereen mee. Hans Keilson.
“One of the best ways to learn is by helping others,” says
Alvarez.
“When someone has a problem on an OTN [Oracle Technology Network] forum, I enjoy trying to assist them with it. I've learned a lot by trying to help other Oracle users to solve their problems.” From
Congrats to the Oracle ACE Director of the Year…
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Dromen brengen werk met zich mee. Paolo Coehlo (By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness)
If you give a manager a numerical target, he'll make it even if he has to destroy the company in the process.
Deming
A bad system will defeat a good person every time.
Deming
For the past 40 years, for example, we’ve tortured ourselves over our inability to finish a software project on time and on budget. But as I hinted earlier, this never should have been the supreme goal. The more important goal is transformation, creating software that changes the world or that transforms a company or how it does business.
Tom DeMarco - An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?
Software development is and always will be somewhat experimental. The actual software construction isn’t necessarily experimental, but its conception is. And this is where our focus ought to be. It’s where our focus always ought to have been.
Tom DeMarco - An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?
Even under the best programs, users will forget 70 percent of what they’ve learned within two weeks and 87 percent within one month.
Oracle User Productivity Kit
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Albert Einstein said: “Not everything that counts can be counted. And not everything that can be counted counts.”
Ik schrijf dus ik besta
“L'incertitude est une bonne pratique de la vie”, souffle Rodolphe Belmer.
The introduction of a tool can be yet another source of problems in that ongoing crises we call development.
Ant Documentation
Le droit et la physique ont ceci en commun que les lois perdent leur sens face à l’infiniment petit et l’infiniment grand.
Maitre Eolas
De toekomst is en fantasie die ons heden richting geeft
optimization = doing a less expensive thing or doing expensive things less often. don't bother me with trifles–there will be blood tonight.
@KentBeck
“The program itself is the only complete description of what the program will do.” – P. J. Davis
CompSciFact: “A lot of times people don't know what they want until you show it to them.” – Steve Jobs
Our existing education system is oriented towards material development; neglecting inner values. Consequently we lack a clear awareness of the inner values that are the basis of a happy life –
DalaiLama
“may all your problems be technical ones” (ie not political one) – old programmer’s blessing
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Does not matter how smart you are, if a guess cannot be backed up by experimental evidence, it is just a guess - Richard Feynman
Martin Thompson
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In order to exercise creativity, freedom of thought is essential
Dalai Lama
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Beaumarchais : “Je me presse de rire de tout de peur d'être obligé d'en pleurer” (…) ”
A lot of programming problems get solved while you sleep.
Joe Armstrong
“When explaining a command, or language feature, or hardware widget, first describe the problem it is designed to solve” - David Martin
Make It Work Make It Right Make It Fast Kent Beck. “First do it, then do it right, then do it fast”
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life” - Confucius
Friday afternoon. having trouble focusing. didn't get enough done this week. best move? GO HOME. the world revolution will wait until monday
Kent Beck
Il y a 3 formes de mensonge : le mensonge par action, le mensonge par omission et la statistique
Maitre Eolas
“It's easier to invent the future than try to predict it” - President Hennessy
L'informatique actuelle, c'est un peu l'art de tout connaître, mais de ne rien savoir.
Gulien
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It is easier to find things you hate about your job than things you love about your job, even if you like your job.
Kent Beck
Code is more expensive to maintain than to write.
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage, to move in the opposite direction.” - Albert Einstein
“The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see”. John Tukey, 1977
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It’s much more pleasant to work with people who focus on “how can we (big picture)” than those who focus on “why we can’t (small picture).
Greg Rahn
“Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.” John W. Tukey
Vecht voor je dromen en je dromen zullen voor jou vechten. #PauloCoelho
Ignorant people are more likely to believe they are brilliant, while intelligent people are more likely to underestimate their abilities.
UberFacts
Science works on the frontier between knowledge and ignorance. We’re not afraid to admit what we don’t know – there’s no shame in that. The only shame is to pretend that we have all the answers.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
It always seems impossible until it's done. Nelson Mandela
I'm a oompa-loompas, I'm always laughing. I think everything's a colossal joke. Charlie and the chocolate factory (Page 107 chapter 18 down the chocolate river)
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“If you can't write it down in English, you can't code it.” – Peter Halpern
'Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.' – George Box
“The data tell what happens, not why it happens”
Dao Nguyen
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas Edison
Oxygen is required for combustion and hydrogen is flammable gas, but together they make water… Which puts fire out.
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
Robert Frost.
I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were salves.
Harriet Tubman
“I have a lot of
persistence. Persistence is the key to my life. You fall down, you get back up, and you go again. I don’t give up. That’s been the motto of my life in business and science. I’ve never been really good at anything, I just stay with it.”
Lew Hollander
When coding, know what problem you're solving. When measuring, know what decision you're supporting.
Jessica Kerr
We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one. (Tom Hiddleston)
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