College is a waystation - the last convenience store on the road to life-long responsibility. --Dennis Miller The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why. --perldoc perl Premature optimization is the root of all evil. --Donald Knuth People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay 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 Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from the wrong kind of tree. --Professor W. With software there are only two possibilites: either the users control the programme or the programme controls the users. If the programme controls the users, and the developer controls the programme, then the programme is an instrument of unjust power. --Richard Stallman Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches. --Paul Graham What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time? --James Alan Gardner The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. --Alan Kay When in doubt, do something. --Harry Chapin Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them. --Joshua Bloch 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 How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist --Pablo Picasso Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. --Donald Knuth The issue of finding the best possible answer or achieving maximum efficiency usually arises in industry only after serious performance or legal troubles. --Steven S. Skiena 'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability. --George Bernard Shaw The best way to predict the future is to invent it --Alan Kay A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points --Alan Kay Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Nartin Fowler 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 A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Alan Perlis What is a university/college when the students lose interest? --Isaac Traxler Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass. --Larry Wall Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. --Edward V. Berard 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 How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous 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 People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay ...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 Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler
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