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Do It Right — Wooden

December 1st, 2005 | In Quotes | Comments Off

If you don稚 have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
–John Wooden
basketball coach

This is true in sports, but especially true when developing software. Ask yourself that question constantly and you’ll do a better job.

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The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases. β€” Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy - 4 days agoThe ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. β€” Hans Hoffmann - 9 days agoSo much complexity in software comes from trying to make one thing do two things. β€” Ryan Singer - 15 days agoGood code is short, simple, and symmetrical - the challenge is figuring out how to get there. β€” Sean Parent - 17 days agoSimplicity carried to the extreme becomes elegance. β€” Jon Frankli - 21 days ago

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