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“Code will be used in ways we cannot anticipate, in ways it was never designed for, and for longer than it was ever intended. —Joshua Corman”
― Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow
― Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow
“The problem that Dijkstra recognized, early on, was that programming is hard, and that programmers don’t do it very well.”
― Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design
― Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design
“The notion of flow in humans doesn’t happen when context switching is the norm.”
― Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow
― Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow
“Effective software change, like effective surgery, really involves deeper skills. Working with care doesn’t do much for you if you don’t use the right tools and techniques. Cover”
― Working Effectively with Legacy Code
― Working Effectively with Legacy Code
“There is a common misconception that the human brain is the pinnacle of billions of years of evolution. This may be true if we think of the entire nervous system. However, the human neocortex itself is a relatively new structure and hasn’t been around long enough to undergo much long-term evolutionary refinement.”
― On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines
― On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines
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