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 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 A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. --John Ciardi Think twice, code once. --Waseem Latif How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live --John Woods Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. 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 The best way to predict the future is to invent it --Alan Kay I'm a programmer. I like programming. And the best way I've found to have a positive impact on code is to write it. --Robert C. Martin There ain't no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something. --Thomas Edison Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. --Alan Kay Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. --Edward V. Berard 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 'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability. --George Bernard Shaw Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. --Donald Knuth Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard. --unknown There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge. --Jon Erickson Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out. --Chris Pine The real nightmare, worse than the one in which the Big Machine wants to kill you, is the one in which it sees you as irrelevant, or not even as a discrete thing to know. --Benjamin H Bratton
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