Some of the best programming is done on paper, really. Putting it into the computer is just a minor detail. --Max Kanat-Alexander There ain't no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something. --Thomas Edison Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard. --unknown I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. --Kent Beck So if an algorithm is an idealized recipe, a program is the detailed set of instructions for a cooking robot preparing a month of meals for an army while under enemy attack --Kernighan Brian Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption. --Keith Bostic Think twice, code once. --Waseem Latif Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. --Donald Knuth Without requirements and design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file. --Louis Srygley 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 Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. --Edward V. Berard There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge. --Jon Erickson That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. --Larry Niven 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 How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous Premature optimization is the root of all evil. --Donald Knuth Happiness should be a function without any parameters. --Pranshu Midha
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