Quotes About Progress

perfect software doesn't exist. No one in the brief history of computing has ever written a piece of perfect software.

A Pragmatic Programmer takes charge of his or her own career, and isn't afraid to admit ignorance or error.

People find it easier to join an ongoing success. Show them a glimpse of the future and you'll get them to rally around.

Over the years, you'll be amazed at how your experience has blossomed and your skills have grown.

Tracer bullets show what you're hitting. This may not always be the target. You then adjust your aim until they're on target. That's the point. It's the same with tracer code.

Learning is a continuous and ongoing process.

Always take small, deliberate steps, checking for feedback and adjusting before proceeding

All software becomes legacy as soon as it's written.

While software development is immune from almost all physical laws, entropy hits us hard.

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. • King Lear 1.4

You sketch out an overall shape, paint the underlying environment, then fill in the details. You constantly step back with a critical eye to view what you've done. Every now and then you'll throw a canvas away and start again.

expiring assets.[3] Your knowledge becomes out of date as new techniques, languages, and environments are developed.

The cross-pollination of ideas is important; try to apply the lessons you've learned to your current project.

You almost always get better results if you slow the process down and spend some time going through the steps

Like the craftsman, expect to add to your toolbox regularly. Always be on the lookout for better ways of doing things.

When an estimate turns out wrong, don't just shrug and walk away. Find out why it differed from your guess. Maybe you chose some parameters that didn't match the reality of the problem. Maybe your model was wrong. Whatever the reason, take some time to uncover what happened. If you do, your next estimate will be better.

Show them a glimpse of the future and you'll get them to rally around.

knowledge isn't stable. It changes—often rapidly.

American Slavery, American Freedom

One's skill is never complete, one's knowledge is forever lacking, one's taste is invariably altered, one's opinion ever subject to controversy. There is a complete and constant urge towards improvement.

The only constant we have is change.

You get motivated by doing things, not thinking about them.

We got a bad start and fell behind. No

Step by step we shall get to see how truly this promise-precept