But while you can always write 'spaghetti code' in a procedural language, object-oriented languages used poorly can add meatballs to your spaghetti. --Andrew Hunt Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches. --Paul Graham Without requirements and design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file. --Louis Srygley Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist --Pablo Picasso 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 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 Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. --Donald Knuth College is a waystation - the last convenience store on the road to life-long responsibility. --Dennis Miller Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live --John Woods What is a university/college when the students lose interest? --Isaac Traxler 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 really good programmers spend a lot of time programming. I haven’t seen very good programmers who don’t spend a lot of time programming. If I don’t program for two or three days, I need to do it. And you get better at it—you get quicker at it. The side effect of writing all this other stuff is that when you get to doing ordinary problems, you can do them very quickly. --Joe Armstrong 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 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 Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship. --David Thomas 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 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 First solve the problem. Then, write the code. --Waseem Latif The big optimizations come from refining the high-level design, not the individual routines. --Steve McConnell Happiness should be a function without any parameters. --Pranshu Midha 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 How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points --Alan Kay It's got to be the going not the getting there that's good. --Hary 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 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 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 Twenty hours at the keyboard can save you two hours of planning. --Isaac Traxler Premature optimization is the root of all evil. --Donald Knuth People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. --Alan Kay Managers of programming projects aren’t always aware that certain programming issues are matters of religion. If you’re a manager and you try to require compliance with certain programming practices, you’re inviting your programmers’ ire. Here’s a list of religious issues: ■ Programming language ■ Indentation style ■ Placing of braces ■ Choice of IDE ■ Commenting style ■ Efficiency vs. readability tradeoffs ■ Choice of methodology—for example, Scrum vs. Extreme Programming vs. evolutionary delivery ■ Programming utilities ■ Naming conventions ■ Use of gotos ■ Use of global variables ■ Measurements, especially productivity measures such as lines of code per day --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 Think twice, code once. --Waseem Latif Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. --Edsger W. Dijkstra
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