Twenty hours at the keyboard can save you two hours of planning. --Isaac Traxler Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. --Frederick P. Brooks Jr. Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from the wrong kind of tree. --Professor W. 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 There ain't no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something. --Thomas Edison Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship. --David Thomas Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. --Edsger W. Dijkstra How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous 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 There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge. --Jon Erickson Without requirements and design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file. --Louis Srygley Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Nartin Fowler Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively --Dalai Lama XIV Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out. --Chris Pine ...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 disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. --Alan Kay The best way to predict the future is to invent it --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 What is a university/college when the students lose interest? --Isaac Traxler Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. --Donald Knuth The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user. --C.A.R. Hoare Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard. --unknown 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 Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live --John Woods 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 Some of the best programming is done on paper, really. Putting it into the computer is just a minor detail. --Max Kanat-Alexander I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. --Kent Beck 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 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 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 The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why. --perldoc perl A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Alan Perlis A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. --John Ciardi 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 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 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 Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. --Edward V. Berard 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 First solve the problem. Then, write the code. --Waseem Latif
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