How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous First solve the problem. Then, write the code. --Waseem Latif It's got to be the going not the getting there that's good. --Hary Chapin The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why. --perldoc perl 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 A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. --John Ciardi Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption. --Keith Bostic The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user. --C.A.R. Hoare Happiness should be a function without any parameters. --Pranshu Midha The best way to predict the future is to invent it --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 Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship. --David Thomas Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. --Edsger W. Dijkstra Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler If the steps become to big, they become walls... --Herb Sutter A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Alan Perlis Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively --Dalai Lama XIV Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. --Alan Kay So if an algorithm is an idealized recipe, a program is the detailed set of instructions for a cooking robot preparing a month of meals for an army while under enemy attack --Kernighan Brian Twenty hours at the keyboard can save you two hours of planning. --Isaac Traxler There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge. --Jon Erickson Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them. --Joshua Bloch 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
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