The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. --Alan Kay Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist --Pablo Picasso Some of the best programming is done on paper, really. Putting it into the computer is just a minor detail. --Max Kanat-Alexander 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 [On identifying talented programmers] It’s just enthusiasm. You ask them what’s the most interesting program they worked on. And then you get them to describe it and its algorithms and what’s going on. If they can’t withstand my questioning on their program, then they’re not good. I’m asking them to describe something they’ve done that they’ve spent blood on. I’ve never met anybody who really did spend blood on something who wasn’t eager to describe what they’ve done and how they did it and why. I let them pick the subject. I don’t pick the subject, so I’m the amateur and they’re the professional in this subject. If they can’t stand an amateur asking them questions about their profession, then they don’t belong. --Ken Thompson 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 Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship. --David Thomas A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Unix Fortune Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Nartin Fowler What is a university/college when the students lose interest? --Isaac Traxler 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 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 ...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 Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard. --unknown A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points --Alan Kay Twenty hours at the keyboard can save you two hours of planning. --Isaac Traxler There ain't no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something. --Thomas Edison Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from the wrong kind of tree. --Professor W. Without requirements and design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file. --Louis Srygley
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