will-w/programmers-proverbs

Proverbs from the programmer

##Programmer's Proverbs

Programming and development often teaches one wisdom that cannot be attained elsewhere. Coding and programming, as some have said, is a way of life, not just job. When you are a coder, that is a big part of who you are at work and outside of work. So, let's come together, and put down our wisdom for future generations to see and learn from.

###A deployed MVP is worth two prototyped.

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###When you reach bearded-level, there are at least a hundred grey-beards above you.

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###A/B Test twice, deploy changes once.

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###Don't commit on master when drunk.

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###Sleep on a force push.

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###A git pull a day, keeps the doctor away

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###Sometimes you have to cut legacy support to allow the new product to bloom.

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###More hours worked, more commits made. Mostly reverts and bug-causing features.

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###Even a greybeard will drop production DB.

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###Scope creep makes a mountain.

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###A hundred programmers won't make a two-year project in a week.

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###Facebook wasn't built in a day

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###"Just ship" is no substitute for design

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###Today's fashion is tomorrow's legacy

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###Learning obscure and strange languages, yields better understanding and broader horizons

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###The better job you do, the easier others discount the level of difficulty

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###Testing is easier than debugging.

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###Finish a product in a day, and people will expect a new product every day. Teach people about proper development cycles, and your company will flourish.

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###Customer are the best tester.

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###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." --Brian Kernighan

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###Absence is beauty, in error logs.

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###Eternal sunshine of the stateless mind

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###Laziness is your best friend. Never do twice what you can automate once.

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###Good test coverage + automated workflows = quiet cell phones and better sleep.

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###The best code is no code at all

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###Write code like the next person to work on it is a murderous psychopath and he knows where you live.