The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why. --perldoc perl 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 Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Nartin Fowler Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively --Dalai Lama XIV Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them. --Joshua Bloch 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 Without requirements and design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file. --Louis Srygley A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. --John Ciardi What is a university/college when the students lose interest? --Isaac Traxler 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 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 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 Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. --Donald Knuth Twenty hours at the keyboard can save you two hours of planning. --Isaac Traxler 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 Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from the wrong kind of tree. --Professor W. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler 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 That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. --Larry Niven 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 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
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