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 Without requirements and design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file. --Louis Srygley It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical? --Alan J. Perlis 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 There ain't no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something. --Thomas Edison 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 What is a university/college when the students lose interest? --Isaac Traxler A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Alan Perlis I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. --Kent Beck A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. --John Ciardi People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay 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 How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous 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. --Martin Fowler College is a waystation - the last convenience store on the road to life-long responsibility. --Dennis Miller 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 How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live --John Woods ...I’m not saying simple code takes less time to write. You’d think it would since you end up with less total code, but a good solution isn’t an accretion of code, it’s a distillation of it. --Robert Nystrom The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. --Alan Kay People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay Premature optimization is the root of all evil. --Donald Knuth
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