"The future depends on what we do in the present"
Mahatma Gandhi
"One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things."
Henry Miller
"Copy and paste is a design error"
David Parnas
"Simplicity carried to the extreme becomes elegance."
Jon Franklin
"You
know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing
more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand and Stars
"Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement."
Fred Brooks
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
William Arthur Ward
"The best is the enemy of the good."
Voltaire
"That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers."
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Oath of Fealty
"Java is the blunt scissors of programming languages"
Dave Thomas
"If you believe that you know the requirements better than the customer, you are part of the problem, not the solution."
Alan M. Davis
"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."
Og Mandino
"I
think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is
actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a
little harder."
Jay Leno
"I
appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think:
Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a
vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind."
Richard Greenberg
"Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change."
Andre Gide
"If I had 8 hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first 6 hours sharpening my axe."
Abraham Lincoln
"Innovation
has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple
came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on
R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how
you're led, and how much you get it."
Steve Jobs
"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable."
John Patrick
"Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle
"Part
of what I do is a craft, but part of what I do is a science. And I
guess the craft comes in knowing what science to use and what science
not to use."
Bob Moog
"If you can't explain something to a six year-old, you really don't understand it yourself."
Albert Einstein
"To attain knowledge, add things everyday; to obtain wisdom, remove things everyday."
Lao Tzu
"Good style is the 'underware' that supports a program"
Peter Norvig and Kent Pitman
"Elegance is not optional."
Richard A. O'Keefe
"COMPUTER POWER TO THE PEOPLE! DOWN WITH CYBERCRUD!"
Theodor Nelson
"I
believe good software is written by small teams of two, three, or four
people interacting with each other at a very, high dense level."
John Warnock
"Say what you mean, simply and directly"
Kernighan and Plauger
"Write clearly - don't be too clever"
Kernighan and Plauger
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."
Charles Darwin
"Any
intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage, to move in
the opposite direction."
Albert Einstein
"At the feast of ego, everyone leaves hungry."
Bentley's House of Coffee and Tea, Tucson, AZ
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
Marcel Proust
"In the elder days of art, builders wrought with greatest care, each minute and unseen part, for the Gods are everwhere"
Longfellow
"People don't quit playing because they grow old. They grow old because they quit playing."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it"
Chili's Training Manual
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
M. Gandhi
"Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try."
Dennis DeYoung
"It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong."
H.W. Longfellow
"We
need a language that lets us scribble and smudge and smear, not a
language where you have to sit with a teacup of types balanced on your
knee and make polite conversation with a strict old aunt of a compiler."
Paul Graham
"Unnecessary complexity artificially raises the value of small accomplishments."
Andres Valloud
"Complexity is easy; Simplicity is hard."
Edmund Keane
"Billions of flies eat s**t; doesn�t mean it�s good"
Vincent Foley
"The
programmer using a batch-compiler language can seldom achieve the
productive state of mind that artists achieve when the creative current
is unhindered."
Lee Brodie
"Good thoughts bear good fruit. Bulls**t thoughts rot your meat."
George Clinton
"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."
Frank Zappa
"Everyone's a star. Your shine is just different than mine!"
Chocolate from Graham Central Station
"Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
Alan Kay
"All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears."
Alan Kay
"If you want to get anywhere in life, don't break the rules, make the rules!"
CLIPS User Manual
"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand."
Martin Fowler
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming"
C.A.R. Hoare
"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it."
Alan J. Perlis "Epigrams in Programming"
"Static typing prevents certain kinds of failures. Unfortunately, it also prevents certain kinds of successes."
Ned Batchelder, quoted by Peter Lund
"Argue with idiots, and you become an idiot"
Paul Graham
"If we were all using the same language, it would probably be the wrong one."
Paul Graham
"If you think you're designing something for idiots, odds are you're not designing something good, even for idiots."
Paul Graham
"In the church of complexity, more is always better..."
James Robertson
"I
have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my
telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my
telephone."
Bjarne Stroustrup
"In essence, Smalltalk is a programming language focused on human beings rather than the computer."
Alan Knight
"I just need a will of my own and the balls to stand alone."
Gene Simmons
"Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence."
Henrik Tikkanen
"To improve is to change, to be perfect is to change often."
Winston Churchill
"Intelligence is like a river; the deeper it is the less noise it makes."
Unknown
"Source code in files - how quaint."
Kent Beck
"We should build the simplest working thing that could possibly be maintainable."
Andres Valloud
"Static Typing: Make it fast. Make it right. Make it run."
Niall Ross
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A great person does not have to think consistently from one day to the next."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nothing
is carved in stone. NOTHING! Everything is written in sand and is
likely to be erased or unrecognizably altered by the next wave that
sweeps over"
Chili's Training Manual
"Leadership is a state of mind as well as a set of behaviors. Our thoughts precede our actions."
Chili's Training Manual
"You cannot motivate another person. You have to create the environment for them to motivate themselves."
Chili's Training Manual
"OO programmers fall into two categories: Smalltalkers and those who don't get it."
Vassili Bykov
"C for sinking, java for drinking, Smalltalk for thinking"
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