The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user. --C.A.R. Hoare A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Unix Fortune Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively --Dalai Lama XIV 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 most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. --Alan Kay 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 Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist --Pablo Picasso The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment. --Theodore H. White Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. --Alan Kay Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. --Donald Knuth Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard. --unknown 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 Without requirements and design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file. --Louis Srygley Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches. --Paul Graham 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 Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out. --Chris Pine Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler Premature optimization is the root of all evil. --Donald Knuth The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why. --perldoc perl 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 There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge. --Jon Erickson A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Alan Perlis
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