A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. --John Ciardi Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. --Alan Kay How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. --Larry Niven Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively --Dalai Lama XIV The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. --Alan Kay But while you can always write 'spaghetti code' in a procedural language, object-oriented languages used poorly can add meatballs to your spaghetti. --Andrew Hunt Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Nartin Fowler Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. --Edward V. Berard 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 Premature optimization is the root of all evil. --Donald Knuth Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler 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 It's got to be the going not the getting there that's good. --Hary Chapin 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 The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why. --perldoc perl First solve the problem. Then, write the code. --Waseem Latif 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 Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard. --unknown How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous 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. Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches. --Paul Graham The best way to predict the future is to invent it --Alan Kay Think twice, code once. --Waseem Latif 'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability. --George Bernard Shaw A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Alan Perlis Twenty hours at the keyboard can save you two hours of planning. --Isaac Traxler
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