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“Optimization hinders evolution.”

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Alan Perlis was a renowned computer scientist, born on April 1, 1922, and passed away on February 7, 1990. He made significant contributions to the field of computer science, particularly in programming languages and algorithm design. more

“Gates has always understood Moore's Law better than anyone else in the industry. If you can make something run at all, get it out there -it may be slow and clunky, but hardware improvements will bail you out. If you wait until it's running perfectly on the hardware already in the field, it will be obsolete before it's released. This philosophy built Microsoft and is the main reason Microsoft won the war IBM declared back in the OS/2 days.”

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Author:Jerry Pournelle

“Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone).”

Enough Problem Given Learning Obvious Programming Shallow Bugs Developers Eyeballs Beta Testers

Author:Eric S. Raymond

“Don't you hate code that's not properly indented? Making it [indenting] part of the syntax guarantees that all code is properly indented.”

Hate Learning Code Programming Guarantees Guarantees That Syntax

Author:Guido van Rossum

“Questions are the important thing, answers are less important. Learning to ask a good question is the heart of intelligence. Learning the answer-well, answers are for students. Questions are for thinkers.”

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Book:The Connoisseur's Guide to the Mind: How We Think, How We Learn, and What It Means to Be Intelligent

Source: The Connoisseur's Guide to the Mind: How We Think, How We Learn, and What It Means to Be Intelligent

“There is one very good reason to learn programming, but it has nothing to do with preparing for high-tech careers or with making sure one is computer literate in order to avoid being cynically manipulated by the computers of the future. The real value of learning to program can only be understood if we look at learning to program as an exercise of the intellect, as a kind of modern-day Latin that we learn to sharpen our minds.”

Source: The cognitive computer: on language, learning, and artificial intelligence

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