Jeff Atwood famous quotes

In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer's shifting idea of what their problem is.
-- Jeff Atwood

#Meaningful #Technology #Ideas

Teaching peers is one of the best ways to develop mastery.
-- Jeff Atwood

#Teaching #Mastery #Peers

You can achieve a shallow local maximum with A/B testing - but you'll never win hearts and minds.
-- Jeff Atwood

#Heart #Winning #Mind

We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users.
-- Jeff Atwood

#Computer #Programming #Software Engineering

If you don't have people that care about usability on your project, your project is doomed.
-- Jeff Atwood

#People #Care #Projects

Writing code? That's the easy part. Getting your application in the hands of users, and creating applications that people actually want to use - now that's the hard stuff.
-- Jeff Atwood

#Writing #Hands #Creating

The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can’t always tell the difference.
-- Jeff Atwood

#Pain #Exercise #Differences

And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.

Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.

Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and just, for doing what is worthwhile and for preferring to do it well.

They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies…the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. When you're stumped, go to your notes like a wizard to his spellbook. Mash those thoughts together. Extend them in every direction until they meet.

The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.

My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.