...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 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 A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points --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 People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship. --David Thomas Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption. --Keith Bostic The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. --Alan Kay When in doubt, do something. --Harry Chapin 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 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 The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user. --C.A.R. Hoare Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches. --Paul Graham 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 There ain't no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something. --Thomas Edison A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Alan Perlis How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler
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