Happiness should be a function without any parameters. --Pranshu Midha Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship. --David Thomas 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 Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out. --Chris Pine People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay Some of the best programming is done on paper, really. Putting it into the computer is just a minor detail. --Max Kanat-Alexander Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption. --Keith Bostic The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. --Alan Kay What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time? --James Alan Gardner 'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability. --George Bernard Shaw How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous The best way to predict the future is to invent it --Alan Kay Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from the wrong kind of tree. --Professor W. A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points --Alan Kay 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 Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. --Edsger W. Dijkstra The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user. --C.A.R. Hoare The big optimizations come from refining the high-level design, not the individual routines. --Steve McConnell 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 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 Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. --Edward V. Berard Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches. --Paul Graham I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. --Kent Beck 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 ...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 It's got to be the going not the getting there that's good. --Hary Chapin Premature optimization is the root of all evil. --Donald Knuth Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard. --unknown 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 If the steps become to big, they become walls... --Herb Sutter People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay 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 Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Nartin Fowler When in doubt, do something. --Harry Chapin
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