People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay 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 What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time? --James Alan Gardner 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 When in doubt, do something. --Harry Chapin Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches. --Paul Graham Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler Twenty hours at the keyboard can save you two hours of planning. --Isaac Traxler It's got to be the going not the getting there that's good. --Hary Chapin Some of the best programming is done on paper, really. Putting it into the computer is just a minor detail. --Max Kanat-Alexander A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Alan Perlis 'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability. --George Bernard Shaw 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 I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. --Kent Beck That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. --Larry Niven Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship. --David Thomas Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler Without requirements and design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file. --Louis Srygley The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user. --C.A.R. Hoare The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. --Alan Kay The best way to predict the future is to invent it --Alan Kay There ain't no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something. --Thomas Edison A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. --John Ciardi 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 There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge. --Jon Erickson Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. --Alan Kay The big optimizations come from refining the high-level design, not the individual routines. --Steve McConnell 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 How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous Happiness should be a function without any parameters. --Pranshu Midha 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 Think twice, code once. --Waseem Latif 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 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
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