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Ask HN: What are you favorite hacking mantras?

3 pointsby waxmanabout 14 years ago
I was looking at some Facebook pics of some friends who work there (i.e. I was Facebook stalking Facebookers), and I noticed a handful of awesome, hacker-spirited mantras on posters in the background. Among them were:<p>- Move fast and break things<p>- Done is better than perfect<p>- Real artists ship<p>What are some other great ones?

4 comments

mindcrimeabout 14 years ago
<i>Release early, release often</i>. (even though I don't adhere to this as well as I should)<p><i>Given enough eyes, all bugs are shallow</i>.<p><i>Premature optimization is the root of all evil</i>.<p><i>Sometimes, when confronted with a problem, a programmer thinks "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now, he has two problems</i>.
onan_barbarianabout 14 years ago
"The reason we don't do pair programming is that our programmers are at least twice as good as yours"<p>"Only take out enough to win" (with reference to Milt Berle for you youngsters)
HardyLeungabout 14 years ago
The complexity of a system is quadratically proportional to the number of hacks in the system.
strooltzabout 14 years ago
kiss - keep it simple stupid...