- Every good work of
software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch.
- Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to
rewrite
(and reuse).
- ``Plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.'' (Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month,
Chapter 11)
- If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find
you.
- When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to
hand
it off to a competent successor.