A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. --John Ciardi 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 Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live --John Woods How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous 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. Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches. --Paul Graham 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 Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them. --Joshua Bloch Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible. --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 I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits. --Kent Beck Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. --Donald Knuth How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules? --Anonymous 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 When in doubt, do something. --Harry Chapin 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 It's got to be the going not the getting there that's good. --Hary Chapin Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship. --David Thomas Think twice, code once. --Waseem Latif 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 Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist --Pablo Picasso There ain't no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something. --Thomas Edison Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out. --Chris Pine First solve the problem. Then, write the code. --Waseem Latif 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 A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points --Alan Kay College is a waystation - the last convenience store on the road to life-long responsibility. --Dennis Miller Good programmers write code that humans can understand. --Martin Fowler The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user. --C.A.R. Hoare Twenty hours at the keyboard can save you two hours of planning. --Isaac Traxler That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. --Larry Niven 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 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
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