Let’s aspire to a sense of pride and honor in our work. No book has influenced my thinking about the craft of engineering more than Uncle Bob’s The Clean Coder. He observes that lawyers and doctors are bound by a code of both ethics and strong professional standards that give others a reasonable confidence in their conduct and reliability. That’s not to say that every doctor or lawyer is honorable or capable, but it does mean that as a field, they demand a great deal of themselves.
I found this an inspiring idea, but I didn’t truly internalize it ...
