Ask HN: What are you favorite hacking mantras?

Release early, release often. (even though I don't adhere to this as well as I should)

Given enough eyes, all bugs are shallow.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Sometimes, when confronted with a problem, a programmer thinks "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now, he has two problems.

"The reason we don't do pair programming is that our programmers are at least twice as good as yours"

"Only take out enough to win" (with reference to Milt Berle for you youngsters)

The complexity of a system is quadratically proportional to the number of hacks in the system.

kiss - keep it simple stupid...