Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. --Frederick P. Brooks Jr. There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge. --Jon Erickson There ain't no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something. --Thomas Edison Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard. --unknown The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment. --Theodore H. White 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 Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist --Pablo Picasso People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. --Edward V. Berard Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship. --David Thomas 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 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 College is a waystation - the last convenience store on the road to life-long responsibility. --Dennis Miller 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 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 How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous 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 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 The big optimizations come from refining the high-level design, not the individual routines. --Steve McConnell Think twice, code once. --Waseem Latif 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 Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Nartin Fowler The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why. --perldoc perl 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 Twenty hours at the keyboard can save you two hours of planning. --Isaac Traxler Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. --Donald Knuth 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
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