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Facts:

• “Each of us is 750 times more likely to be killed by an asteroid than to win this weekend’s lottery.”

Basic principles:

• Don’t repeat yourself, the DRY principle
• If at first you don’t succeed…Quit
• Don’t live with broken windows
• Keep it Simple, Stupid, the KISS principle
  • Occam’s razor

• YAGNI Principle

Be aware of:

• Self-fulfilling prophecy

Quotes:

• The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn – Gloria Steinem
• Abstraction is selective ignorance – Andrew Koenig
• A human can very well do what he wants, but can not will what he wants – Arthur Schopenhauer
• If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences – William Thomas
• C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off. – Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++
• Some of us just go one god further… – Richard Dawkins
• You must be the change you wish to see in the world – Gandhi
• Reality is just a point of view – P. K. Dick
• Linux is only free if your time has no value. – Jamie Zawinski
• Do only what only you can do. – Edsger W. Dijkstra
• When there’s a will to fail, obstacles can be found. – John McCarthy
• Computer games don’t affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.
• God was invented to explain mystery. – Richard Feynman
• No pressure, no diamonds. – Thomas Carlyle
• People too weak to follow their own dreams will always find a way to discourage others. – Anonymous
• It’s not the fall that kills you — it’s the sudden stop at the end. – Chronicles of Riddick, Hass La Haine
• Just because you are unique does not mean you are useful. – Source unknown.
• In most instances, all an argument proves is that two people are present. – Anonymous
• One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. – Bertrand Russell
• What I cannot create, I do not understand – Richard Feynman

• A players hire A players, B players hire C players. Do you get it? – Steve Jobs on hiring people

Specifics:

• Software development
  • The Pragmatic Programmers’ List of Tips
  • Liskov substitution principle
  • Unit tests
  • Regression Testing

• Law of Demeter

Your mind:

• You can count 4 objects instantenously and and follow up to 4 moving objects simultaneously.
• You can much easier imagine your body moving around an object compared to imagining a movement of the object itsself.
• The time it takes to move your focus around inside an imagined picture is directly related to the actual physical dimensioning relations it projects.

• Decisions you make can be measured about 0.4 seconds before they get conscious to you!