Premature optimization is the root of all evil. --Donald Knuth Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches. --Paul Graham 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 Learning the art of programming, like most other disciplines, consists of first learning the rules and then learning when to break them. --Joshua Bloch The big optimizations come from refining the high-level design, not the individual routines. --Steve McConnell Our consciousness is programmed. We see things a certain way from a young age - we're programmed to keep doing them that way. Then you have to spend adulthood learning how to overcome it, to read out the programs. Try to create. I want to tell people to create. Just start by creating your day. Then create your life. --Prince 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 I'm a programmer. I like programming. And the best way I've found to have a positive impact on code is to write it. --Robert C. Martin 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 Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption. --Keith Bostic When in doubt, do something. --Harry Chapin College is a waystation - the last convenience store on the road to life-long responsibility. --Dennis Miller It's got to be the going not the getting there that's good. --Hary Chapin Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. --Edward V. Berard Twenty hours at the keyboard can save you two hours of planning. --Isaac Traxler 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. 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 There ain't no rules around here. We are trying to accomplish something. --Thomas Edison Delivering good software today is often better than perfect software tomorrow, so finish things and ship. --David Thomas People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware --Alan Kay
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