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“The programmer's primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be to reorganize the modules' data structures.”

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Author:Fred Brooks

“It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.”

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Author:Alan Perlis

“I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.”

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Author:Linus Torvalds

“Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.”

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Book:The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary

Source: The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary

“Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.”

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Author:Linus Torvalds

“Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.”

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Author:Douglas Crockford

“Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.”

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Author:Rob Pike

“It's easy to make mistakes that only come out much later, after you've already implemented a lot of code. You'll realize Oh I should have used a different type of data structure. Start over from scratch.”

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Author:Guido van Rossum

“A data structure is just a stupid programming language.”

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Author:Bill Gosper