Twenty hours at the keyboard can save you two hours of planning. --Isaac Traxler How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Unix Fortune What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time? --James Alan Gardner Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. --Edward V. Berard 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 First solve the problem. Then, write the code. --Waseem Latif Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship. --David Thomas People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay Premature optimization is the root of all evil. --Donald Knuth Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard. --unknown Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler The best way to predict the future is to invent it --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 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 A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points --Alan Kay Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist --Pablo Picasso Without requirements and design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file. --Louis Srygley Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live --John Woods The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user. --C.A.R. Hoare
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