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Index of Sources
Abelson and Sussman
Douglas Adams
Scott Adams
Bilal Ahsan
Christopher Alexander
Jeremy S. Anderson
Poul Anderson
A. Hunt and D. Thomas
I. O. Angell
Anonymous
Mark Ardis
Aristotle
Joe Armstrong
Salman Arshad
Isaac Asimov
Alexander Atanasov
Malcolm P Atkinson
Jeff Atwood
Norman R. Augustine
Bernard Avishai
Charles Babbage
James Bach
Francis Bacon
Richard G. Baini
Terry Baker
Aral Balkan
Leon Bambrick
Craig Barrett
Dave Barry
Jean Baudrillard
Kent Beck
Boris Beizer
Gordon Bell
André Bensoussan
Edward V. Berard
B. Bereza-Jarocinski
Larry Bernstein
Fred Blechman
Cliff Bleszinski
Joshua Bloch
Barry Boehm
Mike Bongiovanni
Grady Booch
Nathaniel S. Borenstein
Bruno Borges
George Box
Dick Brandon
Leonard Brandwein
Wernher von Braun
Frederick P. Brooks
Bruce Brown
Milt Bryce
Tim Bryce
Bill Bryson
Rustam M. Bunyadov
Mike Butler
Tom Cargill
Roy Carlson
John Carmack
David K. Carr
Joe Celko
Assaad Chalhoub
Scott Cherf
Brady Clark
Arthur C. Clarke
Bill Clinton
Alistair Cockburn
Joe Condon
Rich Cook
Alan Cooper
Joseph Costello
P D Coward
Alan Cox
Brad J. Cox
Seymour Cray
Robert Cringeley
Bjarne Däcker
Edward David
Alan M. Davis
Tom DeMarco
L. Peter Deutsch
Edsger Dijkstra
Marc Donner
Peter F. Drucker
Tom Duff
Jeff Duntemann
Paul M. Duvall
Charles Eames
Lewis D. Eigen
Albert Einstein
Maya Elhalal
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grant D. Fairley
R. E. Fairley
Dick Fairley
R. Fano
Peter Farrar
Ron Fein
Bran Ferren
Ernst Fischer
Brad Fitzpatrick
Brian W. Fitzpatrick
L. Flon
Robert W. Floyd
John Foderaro
Brian Foote
Martin Fowler
Jason Fried
Robert Frost
R Buckminster Fuller
R. Gabriel
Galileo Galilei
John Gall
Erich Gamma
Gandhi
Howard Gardner
Mike Garey
Bill Gates
Michel Gauthier
D. Gelernter
Susan Gerhart
Paul Gerrard
David Gerrold
Francis Glassborow
G. L. Glegg
Martin Golding
James Gosling
Paul Graham
Phil Greenspun
Scott Guthrie
Mark Hahn
Hallin and Hansen
Peter Halpern
David Heinemeier Hansson
Richard Harter
Anders Hejlsberg
Elisabeth Hendrickson
Kevlin Henney
Frank Herbert
Jim Highsmith
Richard Hill
Jason Hiner
C. A. R. Hoare
Hoffstetler
Thomas L. Holaday
Jim Horning
Robert Hummel
Watts S. Humphrey
Via Dan Hurvitz
Kaoru Ishikawa
Charles P. Issawi
Michael A. Jackson
Nigel Jacob
John Jacobs
Geoffrey James
Steve Jobs
Larry L. Johnson
Mike Johnson
Ralph Johnson
S. C. Johnson
Jones
D. Jones
Capers Jones
F. P. Jones
Joseph M. Abou Nader
Bill Joy
Cem Kaner
David Karp
Alan Kay
Raymond Kennington
H. W. Kenton
Brian Wilson Kernighan
Mitchell Kertzman
Ken Knowlton
Donald E. Knuth
Gene Krantz
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
Steve Krug
R. Kulawiec
Kumaravel
Leslie Lamport
Butler Lampson
Peter Landin
Jaron Lanier
Lao-Tzu
Rick Lemmons
Rick Lemons
KC Lemson
Bruce Leverett
Margy Levine
Steven Levy
Joseph Licklider
Daniel T. Ling
David S. Linthicum
Tom Love
Alex Lowe
Lynas
Steve Maguire
Lew Mammel
Brian Marick
Mark Fewster and Graham
Robert C. Martin
Bob Martin
David Martin
R. L. Martin
A. Maslow
Chris Mason
Henri Matisse
Bruce Mau
David May
Jim McCarthy
Steve C McConnell
Bill McKeeman
Bill McKeenan
Archibald McLeish
H. L. Mencken
Bertrand Meyer
Rod Michael
Harlan D. Mills
Mark Minasi
M. Minsky
Dave Moon
Richard A. Moran
Mike Morton
Glenford J. Myers
Nathan Myhrvold
Eric Naggum
Jonathan Nagler
Nicholas Negroponte
Greg Nelson
Nils-Peter Nelson
Ted Nelson
John von Neumann
Jakob Nielsen
Larry Niven
Peter Norvig
Michael Nygard
Atli Björgvin Oddsson
Moses Oliver
Rick Osborne
Ray Ozzie
Meilir Page-Jones
Donn Parker
C. N. Parkinson
Dave Parnas
Rebecca Parsons
R. Pattis
George Patton
Gordon Pelton
Alan Perlis
Chris Peters
Charles Petzold
Pablo Picasso
Andy Pierson
Vidiu Platon
Dave Platt
P. J. Plauger
Karl Popper
Otis Port
Ron Porter
Chris Pratley
Archibald Putt
Steven R. Rakitin
Jef Raskin
Mitch Ratcliffe
Eric Raymond
Daniel Read
Eb Rechtin
Samuel T. Redwine, Jr.
Matt Reedy
B. Reid
Douglas J. Reilly
Dennis Ritchie
Howard Rose
Keith Rowe
Peter Van Roy
Winston Royce
John Ruskin
Bertrand Russell
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Dan Salomon
Bo Sanden
Al Schapira
Robert D. Schneider
B. Schneiderman
B. Schneier
Jeff Scholnik
Norm Schryer
Christian Schulte
R. W. Selby
Mary Shaw
Dave Shea
Beau Sheil
Olin Shivers
John Shore
Ray Simard
Phil Simon
Michael Sinz
D. Sites
Derek Sivers
Richard B. Smith
Steven Smith
Erasmus Smums
Joseph Snipp
Ron Soukup
D. D. Spencer
Joel Spolsky
Randy Stafford
Richard Stallman
G. Steele
Selden Stewart
Clifford Stoll
Dave Storer
C. Strachey
Charles M. Strauss
Bjarne Stroustrup
William Strunk
Michael Swaine
Steve Swartz
Albert Szent-Gyorgi
R. Tarjan
Russ Teasdale
R. Tennant
Christopher Thompson
Ken Thompson
Danny Thorpe
Linus Thorvalds
Bruce Tognazzini
T. DeMarco and T. Lister
Linus Torvalds
Edward Tufte
A. Turing
Stansfield Turner
Lao Tzu
Sun Tzu
S. Ulam
Mike Vanier
D. Vargas
Bert Verhelst
Al Vermeulen
Tom Van Vleck
Vic Vyssotsky
Larry Wall
James A. Ward
Thomas Watson
Gerald M. Weinberg
Peter Weinberger
Joseph Weizenbaum
Eudora Welty
David Wheeler
Alfred North Whitehead
Oscar Wilde
Maurice Wilkes
P. Williams
H. H. Williams
Dave Winer
Phillip Winter
Niklaus Wirth
Steve Witham
Stephen Wolfe
W. Wulf
Ed Yourdon
Pamela Zave
Jamie Zawinski
Craig Zerouni
Fredrik Zetterlund
Elizabeth Zwicky
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Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about [the goto statement]. I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are making a religion out of it, as if the conceptual problems of programming could be solved by a single trick, by a simple form of coding discipline!
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Edsger Dijkstra
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goto
problem
programming
code
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There are features that should not be used.
There are concepts that should not be exploited.
There are problems that should not be solved.
There are programs that should not be written.
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Richard Harter
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feature
problem
program
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We try to solve the problem by rushing through the design process so that enough time is left at the end of the project to uncover the errors that were made because we rushed through the design process.
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Glenford J. Myers
, Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction by Steve C McConnell , ISBN: 1556154844 , Page: 143
This book is available from
Amazon.com
Tags:
problem
solve
process
error
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Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice.
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Christopher Alexander
Tags:
pattern
problem
solution
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A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures taken from inconclusive documents and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy by persons of dubious reliability and questionable mentality for the avowed purpose of annoying and confounding a hopelessly defenseless department that was unfortunate enough to ask for the information in the first place.
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Anonymous
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IEEE Grid newsmagazine
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programmer
person
problem
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Voluminous documentation is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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Tom DeMarco
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problem
solution
documentation
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only of how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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R Buckminster Fuller
Tags:
problem
solving
solution
beautiful
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Debugging is an art that needs much further study. The most effective debugging techniques seem to be those which are designed and built in to the program itself. Another good debugging practice is to keep a record of every mistake that is made. Even though this will probably be quite embarrassing, such information is invaluable to anyone doing research on the debugging problem, and it will also help you learn how to reduce the number of future errors.
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Donald E. Knuth
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From The Art of Computer Programming, volume 1.
Tags:
debug
research
problem
errors
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No scene from prehistory is quite so vivid as that of the mortal struggles of great beasts in tar pits. In the mind's eye one sees dinosaurs, mammoths, and saberteeth tigers struggling against the grip of the tar. The fiercer the struggle, the more entangling the tar, and no beast is so strong or so skillful but that he ultimately sinks. Large-system programming has over the past decade been such a tar pit, and many great and powerful beasts have thrashed violently in it. Most have emerged with working systems - few have met goals, schedules, and budgets. Large and small, massive or wiry, team after team has become entangled in the tar. No one thing seems to cause the difficulty - any particular paw can be pulled away. But the accumulation of simultaneous and interacting factors brings slower and slower motion. Everyone seems to have been surprised by the stickiness of the problem, and it is hard to discern the nature of it. But we must try to understand it if we are to solve it.
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Frederick P. Brooks
, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) by Frederick P. Brooks , ISBN: 0201835959
This book is available from
Amazon.com
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problem
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In programming, the hard part isn't solving problems, but deciding what problems to solve.
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Paul Graham
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From his Oscon 2004 address, printed at http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html
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problem
programming
solving
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One of the most effective guidelines is not to get stuck on a single approach. If writing the program in PDL isn't working, make a picture. Write it in English. Write a short test program. Try a completely different approach. Think of a brute-force solution. Keep outlining and sketching with your pencil, and your brain will follow. If all else fails, walk away from the problem. Literally go for a walk, or think about something else before returning to the problem. If you've given it your best and are getting nowhere, putting it out of your mind for a time often produces results more quickly than sheer persistence can.
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Steve C McConnell
, Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction by Steve C McConnell , ISBN: 1556154844
This book is available from
Amazon.com
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problem
result
time
brain
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Consulting: If you're not part of the solution, there's money to be made by prolonging the problem.
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Anonymous
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Programming Proverb From wikiquote.org.
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consulting
money
problem
solution
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Any simple problem can be made insoluble if enough meetings are held to discuss it.
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Anonymous
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Mitchell's Law of Committees
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problem
meeting
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When you break the problem into parts you've determined its structure, and the work that will be done around it, forever.
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Anonymous
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Mark Miller's Law of Irrevocable Subdivision As quoted in Computer Lib, 1987 printing, page 40.
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problem
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Your problem is another's solution; Your solution will be his problem.
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Anonymous
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problem
solution
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The beginning of wisdom for a programmer is to recognize the difference between getting his program to work and getting it right. A program which does not work is undoubtedly wrong; but a program which does work is not necessarily right. It may still be wrong because it is hard to understand; or because it is hard to maintain as the problem requirements change; or because its structure is different from the structure of the problem; or because we cannot be sure that it does indeed work
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Michael A. Jackson
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Principles of Program Design", Academic Press, 1975
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programmer
problem
structure
maintain
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Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I’ll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
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Jamie Zawinski
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regular
expressions
problem
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I think test-driven design is great. But you can test all you want and if you don’t know how to approach the problem, you’re not going to get a solution.
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Peter Norvig
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test-driven
problem
solution
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