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 There ain't no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something. --Thomas Edison 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 How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous 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 Think twice, code once. --Waseem Latif 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 Twenty hours at the keyboard can save you two hours of planning. --Isaac Traxler Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. --Edward V. Berard A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. --John Ciardi Managers of programming projects aren’t always aware that certain programming issues are matters of religion. If you’re a manager and you try to require compliance with certain programming practices, you’re inviting your programmers’ ire. Here’s a list of religious issues: ■ Programming language ■ Indentation style ■ Placing of braces ■ Choice of IDE ■ Commenting style ■ Efficiency vs. readability tradeoffs ■ Choice of methodology—for example, Scrum vs. Extreme Programming vs. evolutionary delivery ■ Programming utilities ■ Naming conventions ■ Use of gotos ■ Use of global variables ■ Measurements, especially productivity measures such as lines of code per day --Steve McConnell When in doubt, do something. --Harry Chapin
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