Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from the wrong kind of tree. --Professor W. Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. 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 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 It's got to be the going not the getting there that's good. --Hary Chapin Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Nartin Fowler The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. --Alan Kay 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 If the steps become to big, they become walls... --Herb Sutter A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Unix Fortune Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption. --Keith Bostic Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them. --Joshua Bloch 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 Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. --Donald Knuth 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 That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. --Larry Niven People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship. --David Thomas Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches. --Paul Graham 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 A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Alan Perlis
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