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 The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why. --perldoc perl 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 How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous The best way to predict the future is to invent it --Alan Kay Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. --Alan Kay 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 If the steps become to big, they become walls... --Herb Sutter 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 What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time? --James Alan Gardner Think twice, code once. --Waseem Latif What is a university/college when the students lose interest? --Isaac Traxler 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 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 Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. --Edsger W. Dijkstra Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. --Donald Knuth A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points --Alan Kay I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. --Kent Beck 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 It's got to be the going not the getting there that's good. --Hary Chapin
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