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List of good engineering quotes found over the internet, books, and other places
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A little copying is better than little dependency.

#SoftwareEngineering #BestPractices #programming #golang

Laws of Software Architecture:

  1. Everything in software architecture is a trade-off.
  2. Why is more important than how.

#FundamentalsOfSoftwareArchitecture #NealFord #MarkRichards #architecture

Well, bigger doesn’t imply better. Bigger means someone has lost control. Bigger means we don’t know what’s going on. Bigger means complexity tax, performance tax, reliability tax.

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

Tim Berners-Lee

Mistakes are good, learn to fix them. Errors are good, learn to read them.

Communication scales; coordination doesn't.

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