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The secret to building large apps is never build large apps. Break your applications into small pieces. Then, assemble those testable, bite-sized pieces into your big application.

-- Justin Meyer

Features, quality, time: pick two.

-- anonymous

The cardinal rule of writing unmaintainable code is to specify each fact in as many places as possible and in as many ways as possible.

-- Roedy Green

Inside every large program, there is a small program trying to get out.

-- Tony Hoare

Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file.

-- Louis Srygley

A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

-- anonymous

In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer's shifting idea of what their problem is.

-- Jeff Attwood

Sometimes the problem is to discover what the problem is.

-- Gordon Glegg

Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.

-- Alan J. Perlis

In programming, the hard part isn't solving problems, but deciding what problems to solve.

-- Paul Graham