A SYSTEM IS NO BETTER THAN ITS SENSORY ORGANS - Systematics quotes
THE MESSAGE SENT IS NOT NECESSARILY THE MESSAGE RECEIVED - Systematics quotes
THE GHOST OF THE OLD SYSTEM CONTINUES TO HAUNT THE NEW - Systematics quotes
"Now you mention it Fritzel did keep himself to himself" - history's least successful neighbourhood watch scheme
Always be careful when running scripts and commands copied from the Internet. That said...
Any AI smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it - Ian McDonald, River of Gods
Assume any pointer indirection is a cache miss - Björn Fahler
Cables with broken retainer clips must be destroyed
Data are plural
Economy of words: never forget that. Ever
Happiness is a warm cache
He who dies with the most stuff wins - Pardon Moi 
Hot sauce on everything
How many managers does it take to change a software engineer?
I am a patient boy: I wait, I wait, I wait, I wait - Fugazi
I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I gallop'd, Dirck gallop'd, we gallop'd all three - Robert Browning
I think my life balance is fine. I just need to trick somebody into doing some of this damn work so I can go surfing
I went down a rabbit hole, and found a badger - JoJo Howell
It's a little like wrestling a gorilla: you don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired - Robert Strauss
Multithreading is just one damn thing after, before, or simultaneous with another - Scott Meyers and Andrei Alexandrescu
Always use infinite loops (except for most cases) - Andrei Alexandrescu
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less - Marie Curie
O(n^2) is the sweet spot of badly scaling algorithms: fast enough to make it into production, but slow enough to make things fall down once it gets there - Bruce Dawson
Safety third (after fun and cost)
Sometimes more is more
Straightening the curves; flattening the hills - The Dukes of Hazzard
Strength in numbers
The tail wags the dog
When you finally find a pot of gold, don't forget to stop searching for a while and enjoy it
There is no exit - vim
We are all made of Spars
We are but data
You can't always want what you get
You can't improve what you can't measure - Andrei Alexandrescu
Generic programming is why we can't have nice things - Andrei Alexandrescu
You have to start ~somewhere~
If you must choose between beauty and utility, choose beauty, because the world has enough ugly useful things - Edsger W. Dijkstra
Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better - Edsger W. Dijkstra
This function is very fast and never fails - QSslConfiguration::swap
// Should never happen
Be who you needed when you were younger
Always do better than necessary - Piaget (watchmaker)
The more meat you stuff in the machine, the more sausages come out the pipe - Sprint Planning 101
Never waste a good crisis
Premature optimization is the root of all evil - Donald Knuth
Agile: stop doing things you don't need
I'm frightened of these trifles - Dostoyevsky
It's only an addiction if you admit it's a problem
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong - Thomas Sowell
Teamwork makes the Dean work
Time is too precious to be wasted on a cheap wristwatch - George Daniels
That's what the eyes were like: dangerous, but beautiful at the same time - Noel Fielding
Substitution failure is not an error (SFINAE): this is where compiler errors go to hide.
Do better if possible and that is always possible - François-Constantin to Jacques-Barthélémi Vacheron
Money can't buy happiness, but it's a lot more comfortable to cry in a Mercedes than on a bicycle.
What is strategy? The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. - Mr. Porter
The server had an error while processing your request. Sorry about that! - OpenAI API
Fail we may, sail we must - Andrew Weatherall
Just fucking destroy it - Andrew Weatherall's brief for producing Primal Scream's Screamadelica
Time is nature's way to keep everything from happening all at once - John Archibald Wheeler
"Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water." - WC Fields remembering an African safari
Give someone state and they'll have a bug one day, but teach them how to represent state in two separate locations that have to be kept in sync and they'll have bugs for a lifetime.