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 What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time? --James Alan Gardner The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why. --perldoc perl Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. --Donald Knuth 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 Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. --Edward V. Berard The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user. --C.A.R. Hoare The best way to predict the future is to invent it --Alan Kay One knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? --Brian Kernighan Think twice, code once. --Waseem Latif A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. --John Ciardi When in doubt, do something. --Harry Chapin If the steps become to big, they become walls... --Herb Sutter 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. A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. --Unix Fortune Premature optimization is the root of all evil. --Donald Knuth Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler 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 People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. --Edsger W. Dijkstra College is a waystation - the last convenience store on the road to life-long responsibility. --Dennis Miller
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