The 10 Commandments of Egoless Programming

1. Understand and accept that you will make mistakes.

2. You are not your code.

3. No matter how much “karate” you know, someone else will always know more.

4. Don’t rewrite code without consultation.

5. Treat people who know less than you with respect, deference, and patience.

6. The only constant in the world is change.

7. The only true authority stems from knowledge, not from position.

8. Fight for what you believe, but gracefully accept defeat.

9. Don’t be “the guy in the room.”

10. Critique code instead of people — be kind to the coder, not to the code.

Jerry Weinberg

Top 10 Things Ten Years of Professional Software Development Has Taught Me

1. Object orientation is much harder than you think.

2. The difficult part of software development is communication.

3. Learn to say no.

4. If everything is equally important, then nothing is important.

5. Don’t over-think a problem.

6. Dive really deep into something, but don’t get hung up.

7. Learn about the other parts of the software development machine.

8. Your colleagues are your best teachers.

9. It all comes down to working software.

10. Some people are assholes.

Andres Taylor

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