“Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.” ThinkingShouldEvilOpportunityStrongForgetWorryAmountWasteNegativeProgramRootsImpactCriticalSpeedEnormousEfficiencyProgrammersMaintenancePrematureOptimizationDebugging Author:Donald Knuth
“Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.” IfsShouldWritingRealHardCodeProgrammingCommentProgrammersComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesComputer LanguageComputer ProgrammersWriting Code Author:Tom Van Vleck
“Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.” ShouldCoursesFieldsDegreesComputerEthicsShould HaveScientistEnvironmentalEngineersRequirementsProgrammersComputer Programmers Author:Jamais Cascio