Competitive/Collaborative Programming Class

Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.
--Donald Knuth
...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
Twenty hours at the keyboard can save you two hours of planning.
--Isaac Traxler
Some of the best programming is done on paper, really. Putting it into the computer is just a minor detail.
--Max Kanat-Alexander
Happiness should be a function without any parameters.
--Pranshu Midha
Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from the wrong kind of tree.
--Professor W.
Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively
--Dalai Lama XIV
Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches.
--Paul Graham
How do you expect to succeed if you do not know the rules?
--Anonymous