Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption. --Keith Bostic First solve the problem. Then, write the code. --Waseem Latif When in doubt, do something. --Harry Chapin Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. --Alan Kay A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. --John Ciardi 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 Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from the wrong kind of tree. --Professor W. Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard. --unknown Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler College is a waystation - the last convenience store on the road to life-long responsibility. --Dennis Miller Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out. --Chris Pine Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. --Edsger W. Dijkstra 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 'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability. --George Bernard Shaw 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 Think twice, code once. --Waseem Latif Along every step of our journey through life, our mind is being programmed. If we are not programming it ourselves, someone else is doing it to us. --Joseph Rain 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 Happiness should be a function without any parameters. --Pranshu Midha When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass. Perl is just that kind of language. It is not designed from first principles. Perl is those sidewalks in the grass. --Larry Wall Premature optimization is the root of all evil. --Donald Knuth 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 How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous Some of the best programming is done on paper, really. Putting it into the computer is just a minor detail. --Max Kanat-Alexander How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous 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 Without requirements and design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file. --Louis Srygley A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Alan Perlis Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live --John Woods Twenty hours at the keyboard can save you two hours of planning. --Isaac Traxler 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 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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