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Quotes to motivate a Software developer

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Here I am sharing 40 best motivational and inspirational quotes from the web that has motivated me to become a developer. These quotes are very inspiring and I felt these will motivate other programmers too and help to avoid common pitfalls in development and hence I thought sharing these quotes with everybody.None of these quotes are mine and please forgive if I have missed to mention the right source. 1.  Dont't worry if it doesn't work right.If everything did, you'd be out of a job.  2.  Don't comment bad code - rewrite it. -  Brian Kernighan 3.  A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen. -  Paul Graham 4.  Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday's code. - Dan Salomon 5.  It´s better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available prog

Ethics in software engineering is paramount

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Being an Ethical Software Engineer As Software is becoming the fabric of society, we developers need to be conscious of the ethics of what we develop There are big ethical issues in today’s advanced technology, but it’s also embedded in the small decisions we constantly make Bringing an ethical discussion into our practice is challenging (but we have to do it) Don’t use technology as an excuse; own your stuff Use your power, make a stand, choose ethically Why ethics, why now? I have always been interested in the philosophical and cultural aspects of technology. And in the last couple of years, I've become more and more concerned about the path that we're taking. There are a lot of aspects of our lives that are improving because of technology. But there are also worrying directions we're taking in politics, in the shape of our society, and in how we treat each other. Technology, and in the last decades, computers and software, is a major force that is influ