A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points --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 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 A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Alan Perlis The really good programmers spend a lot of time programming. I haven’t seen very good programmers who don’t spend a lot of time programming. If I don’t program for two or three days, I need to do it. And you get better at it—you get quicker at it. The side effect of writing all this other stuff is that when you get to doing ordinary problems, you can do them very quickly. --Joe Armstrong There ain't no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something. --Thomas Edison Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. --Edward V. Berard 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 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 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 Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. --Edsger W. Dijkstra Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship. --David Thomas College is a waystation - the last convenience store on the road to life-long responsibility. --Dennis Miller Without requirements and design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file. --Louis Srygley The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. --Alan Kay Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches. --Paul Graham 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 The big optimizations come from refining the high-level design, not the individual routines. --Steve McConnell That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. --Larry Niven Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard. --unknown Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from the wrong kind of tree. --Professor W.
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