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 Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from the wrong kind of tree. --Professor W. Premature optimization is the root of all evil. --Donald Knuth Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live --John Woods Happiness should be a function without any parameters. --Pranshu Midha Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. --Edsger W. Dijkstra Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler 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 ...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 There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge. --Jon Erickson When in doubt, do something. --Harry Chapin A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Unix Fortune A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Alan Perlis 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 One knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? --Brian Kernighan College is a waystation - the last convenience store on the road to life-long responsibility. --Dennis Miller The best way to predict the future is to invent it --Alan Kay Think twice, code once. --Waseem Latif The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why. --perldoc perl A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points --Alan Kay Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out. --Chris Pine The big optimizations come from refining the high-level design, not the individual routines. --Steve McConnell Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship. --David Thomas People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay If the steps become to big, they become walls... --Herb Sutter
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