If the steps become to big, they become walls... --Herb Sutter A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points --Alan Kay 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 I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. --Kent Beck Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption. --Keith Bostic How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist --Pablo Picasso What is a university/college when the students lose interest? --Isaac Traxler Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live --John Woods Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Nartin Fowler College is a waystation - the last convenience store on the road to life-long responsibility. --Dennis Miller Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship. --David Thomas 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 A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Unix Fortune 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 Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively --Dalai Lama XIV There ain't no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something. --Thomas Edison 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 When in doubt, do something. --Harry Chapin Twenty hours at the keyboard can save you two hours of planning. --Isaac Traxler 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 Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler ...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 That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. --Larry Niven The best way to predict the future is to invent it --Alan Kay Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from the wrong kind of tree. --Professor W. Some of the best programming is done on paper, really. Putting it into the computer is just a minor detail. --Max Kanat-Alexander 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 Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. --Edward V. Berard Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard. --unknown The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why. --perldoc perl First solve the problem. Then, write the code. --Waseem Latif The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user. --C.A.R. Hoare 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 Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out. --Chris Pine The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. --Alan Kay 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 People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous 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
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