Twenty hours at the keyboard can save you two hours of planning. --Isaac Traxler Premature optimization is the root of all evil. --Donald Knuth The issue of finding the best possible answer or achieving maximum efficiency usually arises in industry only after serious performance or legal troubles. --Steven S. Skiena A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Alan Perlis The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user. --C.A.R. Hoare Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches. --Paul Graham The big optimizations come from refining the high-level design, not the individual routines. --Steve McConnell Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist --Pablo Picasso 'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability. --George Bernard Shaw Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption. --Keith Bostic College is a waystation - the last convenience store on the road to life-long responsibility. --Dennis Miller Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from the wrong kind of tree. --Professor W. A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. --John Ciardi People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points --Alan Kay Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship. --David Thomas Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard. --unknown Without requirements and design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file. --Louis Srygley 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 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 Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler 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 The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. --Alan Kay Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. --Rick Cook There ain't no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something. --Thomas Edison What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time? --James Alan Gardner 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 How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively --Dalai Lama XIV 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
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