"Owning decisions includes accepting that you might be wrong. Make the cost of a wrong decision as low as possible, and if it turns out that you are wrong, own that, too"—The Staff Engineer's Path
"Owning your career isn’t only about asking for things. It is about that, but it’s much more about facilitating those things happening."Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away..."Antoine de St. Exupery, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939
"Proceed from a plan, whether that plan is in your head, on the back of a cocktail napkin, or on a whiteboard"By The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition
"programmers who are two or three levels removed from the actual users of their code are unlikely to be aware of the context in which their work is used. They will not be able to make informed decisions."By The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition