I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. --Kent Beck What is a university/college when the students lose interest? --Isaac Traxler Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively --Dalai Lama XIV How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user. --C.A.R. Hoare Think twice, code once. --Waseem Latif Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption. --Keith Bostic Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. --Alan Kay Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. --Donald Knuth A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Unix Fortune 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 Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler When in doubt, do something. --Harry Chapin What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time? --James Alan Gardner 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 There ain't no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something. --Thomas Edison 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 Some of the best programming is done on paper, really. Putting it into the computer is just a minor detail. --Max Kanat-Alexander Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live --John Woods Happiness should be a function without any parameters. --Pranshu Midha 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 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 Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out. --Chris Pine There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge. --Jon Erickson Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them. --Joshua Bloch Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Nartin Fowler 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
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