2♥
The secret of getting started is to stop planning.
Gerry Geek
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Murphy's Law: There is no such thing as a perfect code.
2♠
Make code as simple as possible, but no simpler.
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Manager is a person who thinks that nine women can deliver a baby in one month.
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Optimism: "My next failure is gonna be epic!"
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Is Coding a Science or an Art? The best answer is YES.
3♠
Nothing unites people like a delusion.
3♣
Code is like love; it was created with clear intentions at the beginning, but it can get complicated.
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Execution strategies: do / buy / delegate / forget.
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A Project Goal is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it isn't fun.
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To get meaningful result: create something very complicated, and then simplify it.
4♣
If your ideas get rejected, you are on the right track.
5♥
How to be productive? Wait until the last minute and your productivity will skyrocket.
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It's easy to start a project if you have no clue about its cost and timescale.
5♠
I always have my own opinion before my boss says his.
5♣
The worst thing that can happen with a Programmer is being a Boss.
6♥
'Any idiot can point out a problem.' So, bosses do.
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No drop in a flood ever feels responsible.
6♠
20% of people do 80% of the work. 80% of the people think that they are these 20%.
6♣
Offer advice when it is requested, and not when you want to talk.
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Given enough coffee,I could succeed with my project.
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It doesn't matter what your boss thinks as long as he doesn't cry.
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Geeks don't look for solitude, they avoid the hassles created by managers.
7♣
More you know, better advice you give. Less you know, more advice you give.
8♥
Everybody wants to be stronger, richer, luckier, and more successful. Nobody wants to be more intelligent.
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People remember 10% what you tell them. Managers remember less. Don't waste your time on managers.
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Managers don't listen to understand, they listen and wait to start talking.
8♣
People don't leave companies, they leave disastrous managers.
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Problem Solving Technique: either you solve a problem, or this is not your problem.
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In projects, a person makes decisions, and another is always responsible for failure. They are seldom the same person.
9♠
Fail, Learn, Succeed.
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Despite many people successfully imitate work; others achieve success without showing it.
10 ♥
If your main objective is to show others that you work, then you do only work simulation.
10 ♦
We shape our projects; thereafter they shape us.
10 ♠
Planning means never having to say you're certain.
10 ♣
Successful managers enthusiastically go from a failure to another failure and always get a pay rise.
J♥
The real work is frequently interrupted by meetnaping.
J♦
If you don't know what you're coding, you can always to succeed.
J♠
Everything is possible if you don't have to do it yourself.
J♣
Problem solving technique: Wait for Friday. Credits to Robinson Crusoe.
Q♥
Certain projects finish on time in spite of top management intervention.
Q♦
Fixing a bug successfully introduces new ones.
Q♠
Project plan is the documentation that everybody praises and ignores.
Q♣
Herding cats is easier than managing IT people.
K♥
Group programming - time to relax waiting some nerd do the work.
K♦
There are two kinds of programmers: those who finish what they start, and others.
K♠
Add more people to a late project if you want to complete it even later.
K♣
We always work better on activities that should not be done at all.
A♥
Nothing shocks me.I'm a geek.
A♦
I refuse to manage any team that would accept me as their manager.
A♠
I make it a rule never to work while I'm sleeping.
A♣
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how good it is.