People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay It's got to be the going not the getting there that's good. --Hary Chapin Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard. --unknown A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. --John Ciardi I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. --Kent Beck There ain't no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something. --Thomas Edison 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 College is a waystation - the last convenience store on the road to life-long responsibility. --Dennis Miller A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Alan Perlis 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 Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live --John Woods First solve the problem. Then, write the code. --Waseem Latif Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship. --David Thomas 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 There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge. --Jon Erickson A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points --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 Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Nartin Fowler Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. --Alan Kay Premature optimization is the root of all evil. --Donald Knuth How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous Without requirements and design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file. --Louis Srygley 'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability. --George Bernard Shaw Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them. --Joshua Bloch The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why. --perldoc perl 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 What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time? --James Alan Gardner Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. --Edsger W. Dijkstra Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. --Edward V. Berard When in doubt, do something. --Harry Chapin 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 Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler 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 ...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 Happiness should be a function without any parameters. --Pranshu Midha 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 Some of the best programming is done on paper, really. Putting it into the computer is just a minor detail. --Max Kanat-Alexander Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches. --Paul Graham It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical? --Alan J. Perlis 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 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 Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist --Pablo Picasso Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. --Donald Knuth People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay 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 Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from the wrong kind of tree. --Professor W. Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption. --Keith Bostic Twenty hours at the keyboard can save you two hours of planning. --Isaac Traxler Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively --Dalai Lama XIV That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. --Larry Niven
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