Pragmatic Thinking and Learning Quotes

“Only dead fish go with the flow.”
― Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware

“Always consider the context.”
― Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware

“Learning isn’t done to you; it’s something you do.”
― Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware

“As a counterexample, consider the case of the developer who claims ten years of experience, but in reality it was one year of experience repeated nine times. That doesn’t count as experience.”
― Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware

“I’ve heard from teams who have created email-free afternoons or entire days: no email, no phone calls, no interruptions. The developers involved said these were the most productive, happiest times of the week.”
― Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware

“That’s not what it’s all about. In fact, it seems we tend to misun-
derstand the very meaning of the word education.
Education comes from the Latin word educare, which literally
means “led out,” in the sense of being drawn forth. I find that little
tidbit really interesting, because we don’t generally think of educa-
tion in that sense—of drawing forth something from the learner.
Instead, it’s far more common to see education treated as some-
thing that’s done to the learner—as something that’s poured in,
not drawn out. This model is especially popular in corporate train-
ing, with a technique that’s known as sheep dip training.”
― Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware

“However, for programmers, combining rich, flexible human thought with the rigid constraints of a digital computer exposes the power and the deepest
flaws of both.”
― Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware

“Coupled code is hard to change: alterations in one place can have secondary effects elsewhere in the code, and often in hard-to-find places that only come to light a month later in production.”
― Andy Hunt, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware