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 The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user. --C.A.R. Hoare 'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability. --George Bernard Shaw Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard. --unknown It's got to be the going not the getting there that's good. --Hary Chapin Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches. --Paul Graham 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 Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist --Pablo Picasso Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption. --Keith Bostic 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 That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. --Larry Niven Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live --John Woods When in doubt, do something. --Harry Chapin 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 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 Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. --Edward V. Berard First solve the problem. Then, write the code. --Waseem Latif Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler 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 The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why. --perldoc perl There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge. --Jon Erickson A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Unix Fortune Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship. --David Thomas 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 A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Alan Perlis Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. --Alan Kay 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 A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points --Alan Kay Happiness should be a function without any parameters. --Pranshu Midha Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler Some of the best programming is done on paper, really. Putting it into the computer is just a minor detail. --Max Kanat-Alexander 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 So if an algorithm is an idealized recipe, a program is the detailed set of instructions for a cooking robot preparing a month of meals for an army while under enemy attack --Kernighan Brian How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous ...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
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