How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. --Kent Beck 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 Without requirements and design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file. --Louis Srygley 'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability. --George Bernard Shaw The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why. --perldoc perl 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 Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. --Edsger W. Dijkstra 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 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 Some of the best programming is done on paper, really. Putting it into the computer is just a minor detail. --Max Kanat-Alexander 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 Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Nartin Fowler Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out. --Chris Pine Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. --Edward V. Berard 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 Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches. --Paul Graham A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. --John Ciardi 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 The best way to predict the future is to invent it --Alan Kay Premature optimization is the root of all evil. --Donald Knuth 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 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 How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points --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 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
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