The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code, but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and skills of those who design and produce the code.
Преждевременная оптимизация — корень всех зол.
Внутри каждой большой программы есть старающаяся пробиться маленькая программа.
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
Дышите, и вы не умрёте.
Failures are much more fun to hear about afterwards; they are not so funny at the time.
Но существует одно качество, которое нельзя купить, — это надежность. Цена надежности — погоня за крайней простотой. Это цена, которую очень богатому труднее всего заплатить.
There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way — and that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay.