There ain't no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something. --Thomas Edison 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. Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out. --Chris Pine 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 Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. --John Ciardi That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. --Larry Niven 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 Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively --Dalai Lama XIV Think twice, code once. --Waseem Latif I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. --Kent Beck Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Nartin Fowler Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. --Donald Knuth It's got to be the going not the getting there that's good. --Hary Chapin Twenty hours at the keyboard can save you two hours of planning. --Isaac Traxler The best way to predict the future is to invent it --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 Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches. --Paul Graham Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. --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 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 Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them. --Joshua Bloch Premature optimization is the root of all evil. --Donald Knuth Happiness should be a function without any parameters. --Pranshu Midha How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous
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