23 Quotes by Andrew Hunt

One hundred years from now, our engineering may seem as archaic as the techniques used by medieval cathedral builders seem to today’s civil engineers, while our craftsmanship will still be honored.

Every day, work to refine the skills you have and to add new tools to your repertoire.

Pragmatic Programmers won’t sit idly by and watch their projects fall apart through neglect.

We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals.

All software you write will be tested – if not by you and your team, then by the eventual users – so you might as well plan on testing it thoroughly.

Great software today is often preferable to perfect software tomorrow. If you give your users something to play with early, their feedback will often lead you to a better eventual solution.

Have you noticed how some project teams are efficient, with everyone knowing what to do and contributing fully, while the members of other teams are constantly bickering and don’t seem able to get out of each other’s way? Often this is an orthogonality issue. When teams are organized with lots of overlap, members are confused about responsibilities. Every change needs a meeting of the entire team, because any one of them might be affected.

The amount of surprise you feel when something goes wrong is directly proportional to the amount of trust and faith you have in the code being run.

Entropy is a term from physics that refers to the amount of “disorder” in a system.