“A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.”
Source: Programming Perl: Unmatched Power for Text Processing and Scripting
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Source: Programming Perl: 3rd Edition
“Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.”
“All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit
Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
“Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.”
Source: Code Complete
Source: The C++ Programming Language
“The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.”
“It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.”
Source: Star Wars: The Screenplay. Return of the Jedi
“There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.”
Source: The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography
“The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.”
Source: Composite/structured design
“A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.”
Source: Code Complete
“If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.”
“Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality.”
“Good visual layout shows the logical structure of a program.”
“Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.”
“By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.”
Source: The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology