| It's got to be the going  not the getting there that's good. --Hary Chapin
 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
 Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship.
 --David Thomas
 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
 That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
 --Larry Niven
 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
 Managers of programming projects aren’t always aware that certain programming issues are matters of religion. If you’re a manager and you try to require compliance with certain programming practices, you’re inviting your programmers’ ire. Here’s a list of religious issues:
 ■ Programming language
 ■ Indentation style
 ■ Placing of braces
 ■ Choice of IDE
 ■ Commenting style
 ■ Efficiency vs. readability tradeoffs
 ■ Choice of methodology—for example, Scrum vs. Extreme Programming vs. evolutionary delivery ■ Programming utilities
 ■ Naming conventions
 ■ Use of gotos
 ■ Use of global variables
 ■ Measurements, especially productivity measures such as lines of code per day
 --Steve McConnell
 There ain't no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something.
 --Thomas Edison
 People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware
 --Alan Kay
 Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively
 --Dalai Lama XIV
 What is a university/college when the students lose interest?
 --Isaac Traxler
 The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
 --Alan Kay
 [On identifying talented programmers] It’s just enthusiasm. You ask them what’s the most interesting program they worked on. And then you get them to describe it and its algorithms and what’s going on. If they can’t withstand my questioning on their program, then they’re not good. I’m asking them to describe something they’ve done that they’ve spent blood on. I’ve never met anybody who really did spend blood on something who wasn’t eager to describe what they’ve done and how they did it and why. I let them pick the subject. I don’t pick the subject, so I’m the amateur and they’re the professional in this subject. If they can’t stand an amateur asking them questions about their profession, then they don’t belong.
 --Ken Thompson
 Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out.
 --Chris Pine
 Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
 --Keith Bostic
 If the steps become to big, they become walls...
 --Herb Sutter
 A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
 --John Ciardi
 Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from the wrong kind of tree.
 --Professor W.
 Happiness should be a function without any parameters.
 --Pranshu Midha
 I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
 --Kent Beck
 The best way to predict the future is to invent it
 --Alan Kay
 Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
 --Martin Fowler
 There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge.
 --Jon Erickson
 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
 The really good programmers spend a lot of time programming. I haven’t seen very good programmers who don’t spend a lot of time programming. If I don’t program for two or three days, I need to do it. And you get better at it—you get quicker at it. The side effect of writing all this other stuff is that when you get to doing ordinary problems, you can do them very quickly.
 --Joe Armstrong
 A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
 --Alan Perlis
 The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris.  See the Camel Book for why.
 --perldoc perl
 Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches.
 --Paul Graham
 The issue of finding the best possible answer or achieving maximum efficiency usually arises in industry only after serious performance or legal troubles.
 --Steven S. Skiena
 Think twice, code once.
 --Waseem Latif
 A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
 --Unix Fortune
 First solve the problem. Then, write the code.
 --Waseem Latif
 Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
 --Donald Knuth
 'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability.
 --George Bernard Shaw
 How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules?
 --Anonymous
 Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.
 --Donald Knuth
 Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them.
 --Joshua Bloch
 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 is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard.
 --unknown
 Any fool can write code that a computer can understand.  Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
 --Martin Fowler
 When in doubt, do something.
 --Harry Chapin
 College is a waystation - the last convenience store on the road to life-long responsibility.
 --Dennis Miller
 The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user.
 --C.A.R. Hoare
 Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live
 --John Woods
 How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules?
 --Anonymous
 Twenty hours at the keyboard can save you two hours of planning.
 --Isaac Traxler
 When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass.
 --Larry Wall
 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
 Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist
 --Pablo Picasso
 Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
 --Edward V. Berard
 Some of the best programming is done on paper, really. Putting it into the computer is just a minor detail.
 --Max Kanat-Alexander
 Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
 --Nartin Fowler
 People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware
 --Alan Kay
 
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