Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches. --Paul Graham Premature optimization is the root of all evil. --Donald Knuth Without requirements and design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file. --Louis Srygley First solve the problem. Then, write the code. --Waseem Latif Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. --Edward V. Berard 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 The best way to predict the future is to invent it --Alan Kay Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. --Edsger W. Dijkstra Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard. --unknown Happiness should be a function without any parameters. --Pranshu Midha It's got to be the going not the getting there that's good. --Hary Chapin Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. --Donald Knuth Twenty hours at the keyboard can save you two hours of planning. --Isaac Traxler 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 Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption. --Keith Bostic A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. --John Ciardi A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Alan Perlis 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 When in doubt, do something. --Harry Chapin Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. --Alan Kay The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. --Alan Kay I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. --Kent Beck How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous 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
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