Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard. --unknown Think twice, code once. --Waseem Latif It's got to be the going not the getting there that's good. --Hary Chapin First solve the problem. Then, write the code. --Waseem Latif The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. --Alan Kay There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge. --Jon Erickson 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 The best way to predict the future is to invent it --Alan Kay College is a waystation - the last convenience store on the road to life-long responsibility. --Dennis Miller People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay 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 A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Alan Perlis 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 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 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 Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out. --Chris Pine 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 big optimizations come from refining the high-level design, not the individual routines. --Steve McConnell That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. --Larry Niven Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. --Donald Knuth 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 Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live --John Woods 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 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 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
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