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 People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. --Larry Niven The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why. --perldoc perl 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 There ain't no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something. --Thomas Edison One knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? --Brian Kernighan 'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability. --George Bernard Shaw Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge. --Jon Erickson If the steps become to big, they become walls... --Herb Sutter The big optimizations come from refining the high-level design, not the individual routines. --Steve McConnell
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