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 Happiness should be a function without any parameters. --Pranshu Midha I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. --Kent Beck Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from the wrong kind of tree. --Professor W. Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship. --David Thomas 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 Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out. --Chris Pine Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. --Donald Knuth The best way to predict the future is to invent it --Alan Kay Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them. --Joshua Bloch College is a waystation - the last convenience store on the road to life-long responsibility. --Dennis Miller Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist --Pablo Picasso Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. --Edward V. Berard A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Alan Perlis 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 Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. --Edsger W. Dijkstra 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 ...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 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
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