Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live --John Woods A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points --Alan Kay I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. --Kent Beck A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Alan Perlis ...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 What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time? --James Alan Gardner 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 First solve the problem. Then, write the code. --Waseem Latif 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 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 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 Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively --Dalai Lama XIV If the steps become to big, they become walls... --Herb Sutter The big optimizations come from refining the high-level design, not the individual routines. --Steve McConnell 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 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 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 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 Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption. --Keith Bostic 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. Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. --Alan Kay The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why. --perldoc perl 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 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 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 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 When in doubt, do something. --Harry Chapin Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler It's got to be the going not the getting there that's good. --Hary Chapin That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. --Larry Niven Happiness should be a function without any parameters. --Pranshu Midha The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. --Alan Kay Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. --Edward V. Berard People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay
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