Happiness should be a function without any parameters. --Pranshu Midha Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler 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 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 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 Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption. --Keith Bostic Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Nartin Fowler That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. --Larry Niven If the steps become to big, they become walls... --Herb Sutter The big optimizations come from refining the high-level design, not the individual routines. --Steve McConnell Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from the wrong kind of tree. --Professor W. 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 Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. --Edsger W. Dijkstra 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
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