John Z. Sonmez QUOTES

1 " So many people set off in a direction in life but don’t think things completely through first. "

― John Z. Sonmez , The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Programming Languages Quickly, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land Your Software Developer Dream Job

2 " I’d prefer not to say what my current salary is because if it’s higher than what you expect to pay for this job, I wouldn’t want that to eliminate me from being considered for this job—because I might be willing to accept less for the right position—and, if it’s lower than what this job would pay, I wouldn’t want to sell myself short either— I’m sure you can understand. "

― John Z. Sonmez , Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual

3 " Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.” —Gary Ryan Blair "

― John Z. Sonmez , The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Programming Languages Quickly, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land Your Software Developer Dream Job

4 " Programming today is more about knowing how to use libraries and frameworks than being an absolute expert in the language. "

― John Z. Sonmez , The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Programming Languages Quickly, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land Your Software Developer Dream Job

5 " People are going to think bad things about you no matter what you do; you can’t control that. Don’t try to please other people and worry about what they think of you. Do what you feel is right. Ignore the haters. "

― John Z. Sonmez , The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Programming Languages Quickly, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land Your Software Developer Dream Job

6 " pick an open source application—preferably a popular one that is likely to be well-designed—and start looking through the source code. "

― John Z. Sonmez , The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Programming Languages Quickly, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land Your Software Developer Dream Job

7 " Use the application itself, if possible, so you can get a feel for the relationship between the code and what the code does. "

― John Z. Sonmez , The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Programming Languages Quickly, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land Your Software Developer Dream Job

8 " The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career! —Earl Nightingale "

― John Z. Sonmez , Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual

9 " The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with. "

― John Z. Sonmez , The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Programming Languages Quickly, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land Your Software Developer Dream Job

10 " There is always some chance that whatever you have could be taken away from you. When you do everything in your power to prevent that from happening, you suck the joy right out of life. Instead, I’ve found that by actually embracing uncertainty, paradoxically, like Tony said, the quality of my life dramatically improved. When I made that pivot in my own life, all of a sudden I wasn’t as stressed out. I still work hard and I still try to make wise decisions, but I do what I can and then I leave the rest up to fate. I can’t control fate and I don’t even bother trying. "

― John Z. Sonmez , The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Programming Languages Quickly, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land Your Software Developer Dream Job

11 " from the data I have I think it will take at least X amount of time, but I can’t give you an absolute certain answer. What I can do is work as diligently as possible, give you frequent updates on my progress and revise the estimations as frequently as you would like. "

― John Z. Sonmez , The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Programming Languages Quickly, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land Your Software Developer Dream Job

12 " You either want to learn things that are deeply focused and directly in your specialty, or broad enough to be widely applicable and somewhat timeless. Don’t try and learn a bunch of different programming languages and frameworks that you will likely never use. "

― John Z. Sonmez , The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Programming Languages Quickly, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land Your Software Developer Dream Job

13 " Women in technology are stereotyped. Many men—and some women—often assume that a female programmer is not going to be as technically competent. A woman in technology can also be thought of as either not as passionate or dedicated as a man, or seen as a geeky anomaly who isn’t very feminine, but hangs with the guys and plays Zelda. Women are often thought to be good testers, but not taken as seriously in software developer roles. "

― John Z. Sonmez , The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Programming Languages Quickly, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land Your Software Developer Dream Job

14 " The point is, some women in technology will fit these stereotypes, but that doesn’t mean that all—or even most—do. There are plenty of technically-competent female software developers who are just as passionate about programming and technology as any guy, and are not “guy-like” in nature. "

― John Z. Sonmez , The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Programming Languages Quickly, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land Your Software Developer Dream Job

15 " One human being does not lash out and attempt to destroy the work of another human being unless that first human being is in some kind of great pain themselves. Most of the time when someone is attacking you or your work it is more about them than it is about you. "

― John Z. Sonmez , The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Programming Languages Quickly, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land Your Software Developer Dream Job

16 " But I do think it’s practical, for not just women, but really anyone in the software development field to grow a thick skin. "

― John Z. Sonmez , The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Programming Languages Quickly, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land Your Software Developer Dream Job

17 " So many of us hang around and maintain relationships with people—and sometimes family members—who constantly bring us down instead of lift us up. Life is too short to waste your time with these people. It doesn’t mean you have to cut them out of your life completely, but you can always demote them from friend to acquaintance status. "

― John Z. Sonmez , The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Programming Languages Quickly, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land Your Software Developer Dream Job

18 " It’s usually a bad bet in software development to prematurely optimize and it’s also usually a bad bet in life. "

― John Z. Sonmez , The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Programming Languages Quickly, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land Your Software Developer Dream Job

19 " Most software developers starting out in their careers make a few huge mistakes. The biggest of those mistakes, by far, is not treating their software development career as a business. Don’t be fooled; when you set out into the world to write code for a living, you’re no different than the blacksmith of old times setting up shop in a medieval town. Times may have changed, and most of us work for a company, but our skills and our trade belong to us and we can always choose to set up shop somewhere else. "

― John Z. Sonmez , Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual

20 " It’s better to think of an employer as a customer for your business of developing software. "

― John Z. Sonmez , Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual