Competitive/Collaborative Programming Class

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
--Martin Fowler
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
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live
--John Woods
There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge.
--Jon Erickson
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
...I’m not saying simple code takes less time to write. You’d think it would since you end up with less total code, but a good solution isn’t an accretion of code, it’s a distillation of it.
--Robert Nystrom
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
--Nartin Fowler
Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
--Donald Knuth
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
Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.
--Edsger W. Dijkstra
Programming is the art of thinking really hard about how to avoid having to think really hard.
--unknown
Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
--Martin Fowler
Think twice, code once.
--Waseem Latif
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
If the steps become to big, they become walls...
--Herb Sutter
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
--Larry Niven