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 Twenty hours at the keyboard can save you two hours of planning. --Isaac Traxler Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. --Alan Kay People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them. --Joshua Bloch Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out. --Chris Pine I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. --Kent Beck Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively --Dalai Lama XIV 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 The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. --Alan Kay 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. If the steps become to big, they become walls... --Herb Sutter Think twice, code once. --Waseem Latif 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
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