There ain't no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something. --Thomas Edison What is a university/college when the students lose interest? --Isaac Traxler Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. --Edsger W. Dijkstra 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 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 is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard. --unknown 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 The best way to predict the future is to invent it --Alan Kay 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 Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches. --Paul Graham When in doubt, do something. --Harry Chapin
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