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"We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals. Not just anyone, with any background, or any training, can do a fine job of programming. Programmers know this, but then why is it that they think that anyone picked off the street can do documentation? One has only to spend an hour looking at papers written by graduate students to realize the extent to which the ability to communicate is not universally held. And so, when we speak about computer program documentation, we are not speaking about the psychology of computer programming at all - except insofar as programmers have the illusion that anyone can do a good job of documentation, provided he is not smart enough to be a programmer." »Gerald Weinberg, "The Psychology of Computer Programming"
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"programming is modelisation of real life." »Fode Toure
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"[End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...]" »Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
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"programming is like sex one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life." »Michael Sinz
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"If debugging is the art of removing bugs, then programming must be the art of inserting them." »Unknown
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"programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals." »Henry Spencer
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"BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company." »Anonymous
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"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." »Professor Edsger Dijkstra
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"Goto, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers." »Ray Simard
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"If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas." »Harold Abelson
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"The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free." »Charles R. Swindoll
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"As soon as we started programming, we found out to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs." »Maurice Wilkes
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"programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." »Unknown
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"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." »Rich Cook
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"An apprentice carpenter may want only a hammer and saw, but a master craftsman employs many precision tools. Computer programming likewise requires sophisticated tools to cope with the complexity of real applications, and only practice with these tools will build skill in their use." »Robert L. Kruse, Data Structures and Program Design
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"The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland but that's because it's the best book on anything for layman." »Anonymous
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