When in doubt, do something. --Harry Chapin Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively --Dalai Lama XIV Happiness should be a function without any parameters. --Pranshu Midha How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous The big optimizations come from refining the high-level design, not the individual routines. --Steve McConnell Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship. --David Thomas That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. --Larry Niven 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 Think twice, code once. --Waseem Latif 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 Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption. --Keith Bostic 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 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 Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Nartin Fowler A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points --Alan Kay Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from the wrong kind of tree. --Professor W. How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. --Alan Kay 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 is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge. --Jon Erickson 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 Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live --John Woods Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard. --unknown The best way to predict the future is to invent it --Alan Kay If the steps become to big, they become walls... --Herb Sutter Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them. --Joshua Bloch
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