Selected quotes
Some interesting quotes sampled from various places on the internet. Order randomized.
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Be first or be best.
It's better to keep your mouth shut and have everyone assume you're stupid than open it and remove all doubt.
The choice doesn't matter if the outcome is the same.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
Hofstadter's law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's law into account.
You're always higher up on mount stupid than you realize, even when Dunning-Kruger is taken into account.
Kernighan's Law: Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Teach a person to make an engine, and they will never make another game in their life.