Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live --John Woods Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler 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 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 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 Happiness should be a function without any parameters. --Pranshu Midha First solve the problem. Then, write the code. --Waseem Latif ...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 A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points --Alan Kay Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. --Edsger W. Dijkstra What is a university/college when the students lose interest? --Isaac Traxler Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption. --Keith Bostic 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. Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them. --Joshua Bloch Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches. --Paul Graham A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Alan Perlis Premature optimization is the root of all evil. --Donald Knuth The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user. --C.A.R. Hoare College is a waystation - the last convenience store on the road to life-long responsibility. --Dennis Miller A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. --John Ciardi 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 People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous There ain't no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something. --Thomas Edison Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship. --David Thomas Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. --Alan Kay 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 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 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 Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Nartin Fowler 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 Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist --Pablo Picasso 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 Think twice, code once. --Waseem Latif 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 'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability. --George Bernard Shaw There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge. --Jon Erickson
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