The best way to predict the future is to invent it --Alan Kay A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. --John Ciardi Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from the wrong kind of tree. --Professor W. If the steps become to big, they become walls... --Herb Sutter Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. --Edward V. Berard ...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 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 'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability. --George Bernard Shaw 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 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 A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Alan Perlis Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler What is a university/college when the students lose interest? --Isaac Traxler 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 How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time? --James Alan Gardner Some of the best programming is done on paper, really. Putting it into the computer is just a minor detail. --Max Kanat-Alexander Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. --Donald Knuth There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge. --Jon Erickson People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay 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 Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively --Dalai Lama XIV 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 most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user. --C.A.R. Hoare Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. --Edsger W. Dijkstra A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points --Alan Kay 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 Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard. --unknown Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. --Alan Kay The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. --Alan Kay
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