Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard. --unknown There ain't no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something. --Thomas Edison Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively --Dalai Lama XIV How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption. --Keith Bostic 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 [On identifying talented programmers] It’s just enthusiasm. You ask them what’s the most interesting program they worked on. And then you get them to describe it and its algorithms and what’s going on. If they can’t withstand my questioning on their program, then they’re not good. I’m asking them to describe something they’ve done that they’ve spent blood on. I’ve never met anybody who really did spend blood on something who wasn’t eager to describe what they’ve done and how they did it and why. I let them pick the subject. I don’t pick the subject, so I’m the amateur and they’re the professional in this subject. If they can’t stand an amateur asking them questions about their profession, then they don’t belong. --Ken Thompson A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Alan Perlis Some of the best programming is done on paper, really. Putting it into the computer is just a minor detail. --Max Kanat-Alexander When in doubt, do something. --Harry Chapin The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user. --C.A.R. Hoare Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live --John Woods 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 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 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 That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. --Larry Niven Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. --Donald Knuth Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches. --Paul Graham A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points --Alan Kay Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them. --Joshua Bloch 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 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 What is a university/college when the students lose interest? --Isaac Traxler 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 Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Nartin Fowler Premature optimization is the root of all evil. --Donald Knuth 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 'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability. --George Bernard Shaw 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 Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship. --David Thomas
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