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 Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out. --Chris Pine The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. --Alan Kay 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 How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points --Alan Kay The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why. --perldoc perl Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship. --David Thomas Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. --Frederick P. Brooks Jr. College is a waystation - the last convenience store on the road to life-long responsibility. --Dennis Miller 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 Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. --Donald Knuth The best way to predict the future is to invent it --Alan Kay Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches. --Paul Graham First solve the problem. Then, write the code. --Waseem Latif Managers of programming projects aren’t always aware that certain programming issues are matters of religion. If you’re a manager and you try to require compliance with certain programming practices, you’re inviting your programmers’ ire. Here’s a list of religious issues: ■ Programming language ■ Indentation style ■ Placing of braces ■ Choice of IDE ■ Commenting style ■ Efficiency vs. readability tradeoffs ■ Choice of methodology—for example, Scrum vs. Extreme Programming vs. evolutionary delivery ■ Programming utilities ■ Naming conventions ■ Use of gotos ■ Use of global variables ■ Measurements, especially productivity measures such as lines of code per day --Steve McConnell There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge. --Jon Erickson 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. --Alan Perlis Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Nartin Fowler Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from the wrong kind of tree. --Professor W.
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