That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. --Larry Niven 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 Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out. --Chris Pine Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. --Donald Knuth People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. --Alan Kay 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 Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist --Pablo Picasso The personal computer isn't "personal" because it's small and portable and yours to own. It's "personal" because you pour yourself into it - your thoughts, your programming. --Audrey Watters I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. --Kent Beck A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Unix Fortune 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 But while you can always write 'spaghetti code' in a procedural language, object-oriented languages used poorly can add meatballs to your spaghetti. --Andrew Hunt Premature optimization is the root of all evil. --Donald Knuth 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 With software there are only two possibilites: either the users control the programme or the programme controls the users. If the programme controls the users, and the developer controls the programme, then the programme is an instrument of unjust power. --Richard Stallman 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 Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. --Edward V. Berard 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 The big optimizations come from refining the high-level design, not the individual routines. --Steve McConnell People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay
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