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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
Tag:
code
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... the cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. ... The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other.
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John Carmack
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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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Writing code ... is not an exercise in manliness.
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Mark Hahn
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Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
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Donald E. Knuth
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First do it, then do it right, then do it fast.
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Anonymous
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There are many variants of this quote. The basic idea is that you should not try to start optimizing your code from the start, but try to get a simple design that works. When you try to optimize early, you often get a design that is too complicated and fragile, and you often end up optimizing something that isn't even a bottleneck.
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Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
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Martin Fowler
, Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck (Contributor), John Brant (Contributor), William Opdyke, don Roberts , ISBN: 0201485672
This book is available from
Amazon.com
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For the time being, programming is a consumer job, assembly line coding is the norm, and what little exciting stuff is being performed is not going to make it compared to the mass-marketed cräp sold by those who think they can surf on the previous half-century's worth of inventions forever.
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Eric Naggum
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job
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code
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It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
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Steve C McConnell
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mystery
code
figure
read
funny
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If the code doesn't bother you, don't bother it.
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Anonymous
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funny
code
fix
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Whenever possible, steal code.
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Tom Duff
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Quoted in More Programming Pearls, Column 6: Bumper-Sticker Computer Science.
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code
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Reusability of components, objects, code, stuff, ...whatever...remains the most unfulfilled promise offered by any software methodology that has reared its pretty head since Von Neuman.
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Larry L. Johnson
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methodology
object
code
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component
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Any language from which code can be generated automatically is a programming language.
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Selden Stewart
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language
code
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Lines of Code is not a measure of effort It is the measure of Tape Archives used in 1968
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Bilal Ahsan
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Lines of Code
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code
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measure
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Don't wait until you have a bug to step through your code.
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Steve Maguire
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Chapter 4: Step Through Your Code.
, Writing Solid Code: Microsoft's Techniques for Developing Bug-Free C Programs by Steve Maguire , ISBN: 1556155514
This book is available from
Amazon.com
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bug
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Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
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Anonymous
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code
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Linux
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Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
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Brian Wilson Kernighan
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debug
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Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code.
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Anonymous
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code
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Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.
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Eric Raymond
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structure
code
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Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
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Rick Osborne
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code
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Pasting code from the internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
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Mike Johnson
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funny
jokes
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internet
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The difference between a tolerable programmer and a great programmer is not how many programming languages they know, and it’s not whether they prefer Python or Java. It’s whether they can communicate their ideas. By persuading other people, they get leverage. By writing clear comments and technical specs, they let other programmers understand their code, which means other programmers can use and work with their code instead of rewriting it. Absent this, their code is worthless. By writing clear technical documentation for end users, they allow people to figure out what their code is supposed to do, which is the only way those users can see the value in their code. There’s a lot of wonderful, useful code buried on sourceforge somewhere that nobody uses because it was created by programmers who don’t write very well (or don’t write at all), and so nobody knows what they’ve done and their brilliant code languishes.
I won’t hire a programmer unless they can write, and write well, in English. If you can write, wherever you get hired, you’ll soon find that you’re getting asked to write the specifications and that means you’re already leveraging your influence and getting noticed by management.
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Joel Spolsky
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write
code
management
specification
programmer
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