That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. --Larry Niven Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. --Donald Knuth ...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 Some of the best programming is done on paper, really. Putting it into the computer is just a minor detail. --Max Kanat-Alexander When in doubt, do something. --Harry Chapin 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 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 Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption. --Keith Bostic Premature optimization is the root of all evil. --Donald Knuth Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them. --Joshua Bloch How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous 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 It's got to be the going not the getting there that's good. --Hary Chapin What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time? --James Alan Gardner I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. --Kent Beck The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why. --perldoc perl There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge. --Jon Erickson Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. --Edsger W. Dijkstra A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Unix Fortune 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 Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Nartin Fowler Along every step of our journey through life, our mind is being programmed. If we are not programming it ourselves, someone else is doing it to us. --Joseph Rain Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from the wrong kind of tree. --Professor W. 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 Happiness should be a function without any parameters. --Pranshu Midha Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship. --David Thomas The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user. --C.A.R. Hoare 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 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 Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live --John Woods Without requirements and design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file. --Louis Srygley The big optimizations come from refining the high-level design, not the individual routines. --Steve McConnell People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler First solve the problem. Then, write the code. --Waseem Latif Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. --Alan Kay The best way to predict the future is to invent it --Alan Kay Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard. --unknown 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 change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points --Alan Kay So if an algorithm is an idealized recipe, a program is the detailed set of instructions for a cooking robot preparing a month of meals for an army while under enemy attack --Kernighan Brian Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler
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