A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Alan Perlis That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. --Larry Niven There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge. --Jon Erickson How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous 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 First solve the problem. Then, write the code. --Waseem Latif 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 What is a university/college when the students lose interest? --Isaac Traxler Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. --Edward V. Berard Without requirements and design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file. --Louis Srygley A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. --John Ciardi Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. --Edsger W. Dijkstra Some of the best programming is done on paper, really. Putting it into the computer is just a minor detail. --Max Kanat-Alexander College is a waystation - the last convenience store on the road to life-long responsibility. --Dennis Miller Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. --Donald Knuth What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time? --James Alan Gardner When in doubt, do something. --Harry Chapin Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively --Dalai Lama XIV Premature optimization is the root of all evil. --Donald Knuth 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 Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from the wrong kind of tree. --Professor W. 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 I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. --Kent Beck 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. The personal computer isn't "personal" because it's small and portable and yours to own. It's "personal" because you pour yourself into it - your thoughts, your programming. --Audrey Watters When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass. --Larry Wall The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user. --C.A.R. Hoare
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