1. Tony Hoare - "I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years." Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake - https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Bill...
2. C.A.R. Hoare - "The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user."
3. Graydon Hoare - "Rust started as a personal project (on my own laptop, on my own time) in 2006. It was a small but real 17kloc native compiler for linux, mac and windows by the time Mozilla began sponsoring it in 2009-10."
EDIT: C.A.R. = Charles Antony Richard = Tony. Not to be confused with his twin brother C.D.R.
2. C.A.R. Hoare - "The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user."
This is something I am guilty of too often.
I get lost in fixing the minute details and edge cases that might come reality under very special circumstances only.
It is good to step back once in a while and focus on whether the thing you are working on actually has an effect on the user experience or user interaction with your product.
Don’t lose the big picture out of sight for all the small edge cases
1. Tony Hoare - "I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years." Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake - https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Bill...
2. C.A.R. Hoare - "The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user."
3. Graydon Hoare - "Rust started as a personal project (on my own laptop, on my own time) in 2006. It was a small but real 17kloc native compiler for linux, mac and windows by the time Mozilla began sponsoring it in 2009-10."
EDIT: C.A.R. = Charles Antony Richard = Tony. Not to be confused with his twin brother C.D.R.