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 A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Unix Fortune First solve the problem. Then, write the code. --Waseem Latif Think twice, code once. --Waseem Latif Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from the wrong kind of tree. --Professor W. Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them. --Joshua Bloch A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Alan Perlis That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. --Larry Niven If the steps become to big, they become walls... --Herb Sutter 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 What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time? --James Alan Gardner There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge. --Jon Erickson Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively --Dalai Lama XIV The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. --Alan Kay 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 A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. --John Ciardi College is a waystation - the last convenience store on the road to life-long responsibility. --Dennis Miller 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 Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live --John Woods 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 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 Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. --Edsger W. Dijkstra There ain't no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something. --Thomas Edison 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 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 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 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 Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship. --David Thomas 'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability. --George Bernard Shaw How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why. --perldoc perl Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard. --unknown Without requirements and design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file. --Louis Srygley 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 People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay 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
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