People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay Some of the best programming is done on paper, really. Putting it into the computer is just a minor detail. --Max Kanat-Alexander You are not reading this book because a teacher assigned it to you, you are reading it because you have a desire to learn, and wanting to learn is the biggest advantage you can have. --Cory Althoff Without requirements and design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file. --Louis Srygley Along every step of our journey through life, our mind is being programmed. If we are not programming it ourselves, someone else is doing it to us. --Joseph Rain The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why. --perldoc perl The best way to predict the future is to invent it --Alan Kay ...I’m not saying simple code takes less time to write. You’d think it would since you end up with less total code, but a good solution isn’t an accretion of code, it’s a distillation of it. --Robert Nystrom Twenty hours at the keyboard can save you two hours of planning. --Isaac Traxler Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. --Alan Kay Happiness should be a function without any parameters. --Pranshu Midha There ain't no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something. --Thomas Edison What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time? --James Alan Gardner People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment. --Theodore H. White Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from the wrong kind of tree. --Professor W. Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live --John Woods Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. --Alan Kay Our consciousness is programmed. We see things a certain way from a young age - we're programmed to keep doing them that way. Then you have to spend adulthood learning how to overcome it, to read out the programs. Try to create. I want to tell people to create. Just start by creating your day. Then create your life. --Prince When in doubt, do something. --Harry Chapin One knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? --Brian Kernighan It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical? --Alan J. Perlis Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. --Rick Cook A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points --Alan Kay A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Alan Perlis Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. --Frederick P. Brooks Jr. If the steps become to big, they become walls... --Herb Sutter
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