A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. --John Ciardi 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 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 I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. --Kent Beck Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from the wrong kind of tree. --Professor W. First solve the problem. Then, write the code. --Waseem Latif A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Unix Fortune 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 Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship. --David Thomas 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 If the steps become to big, they become walls... --Herb Sutter The best way to predict the future is to invent it --Alan Kay Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist --Pablo Picasso 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 Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live --John Woods How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge. --Jon Erickson What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time? --James Alan Gardner 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 The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why. --perldoc perl Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Nartin Fowler There ain't no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something. --Thomas Edison Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. --Edsger W. Dijkstra Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them. --Joshua Bloch 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 Twenty hours at the keyboard can save you two hours of planning. --Isaac Traxler Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out. --Chris Pine 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 A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points --Alan Kay 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. What is a university/college when the students lose interest? --Isaac Traxler [On identifying talented programmers] It’s just enthusiasm. You ask them what’s the most interesting program they worked on. And then you get them to describe it and its algorithms and what’s going on. If they can’t withstand my questioning on their program, then they’re not good. I’m asking them to describe something they’ve done that they’ve spent blood on. I’ve never met anybody who really did spend blood on something who wasn’t eager to describe what they’ve done and how they did it and why. I let them pick the subject. I don’t pick the subject, so I’m the amateur and they’re the professional in this subject. If they can’t stand an amateur asking them questions about their profession, then they don’t belong. --Ken Thompson 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 College is a waystation - the last convenience store on the road to life-long responsibility. --Dennis Miller The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user. --C.A.R. Hoare When in doubt, do something. --Harry Chapin 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 Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard. --unknown Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler
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