Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. --Alan Kay Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live --John Woods The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why. --perldoc perl Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. --Edsger W. Dijkstra Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches. --Paul Graham Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Nartin Fowler 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 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 Happiness should be a function without any parameters. --Pranshu Midha If the steps become to big, they become walls... --Herb Sutter It's got to be the going not the getting there that's good. --Hary Chapin What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time? --James Alan Gardner With software there are only two possibilites: either the users control the programme or the programme controls the users. If the programme controls the users, and the developer controls the programme, then the programme is an instrument of unjust power. --Richard Stallman A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Unix Fortune 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 What is a university/college when the students lose interest? --Isaac Traxler Some of the best programming is done on paper, really. Putting it into the computer is just a minor detail. --Max Kanat-Alexander College is a waystation - the last convenience store on the road to life-long responsibility. --Dennis Miller People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist --Pablo Picasso The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user. --C.A.R. Hoare 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 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.
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