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- Chris Pine Either way you look at it (DRY or laziness), the idea is the... →
- Chris Pine The ~ is just a short way of saying "your home directory", w... →
- Chris Pine Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you c... →
- Brian Marick Scripting is like riding a bicycle: you don't learn it by re... →
- Brian Marick Duplicate code is a major cause of unmaintainable scripts. →
- Brian Marick A technique that often works well is one I call scripting by... →
- Brian Marick Don't worry about the wasted effort unless you know - by mea... →
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- Jason Fried I don't understand the cultural fascination with failure bei... →
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- Anonymous In order to understand recursion, one must first understand ... →
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- Chris Heilmann Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet. →
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- Antoine de Saint Exupéry Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to ad... →
- Keith Bostic Perl - The only language that looks the same before and afte... →
- Bill Bryson A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incred... →
- Martin Fowler Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good... →
- Anonymous It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature. →
- Linus Torvalds Software is like sex: It's better when it's free. →
- Michael Sinz Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support... →
- Buckminster Fuller When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I... →
- Anonymous I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the... →
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- Anonymous Theory is when one knows everything, but nothing works. Prac... →
- Alexander Dvorkovyy Code never lies, comments do. →
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- Simone Carletti Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. →
- Simone Carletti Programming is about learning something new every day. →
- 37signals If you try to please everyone, you won't please anyone. →
- 37signals Build half a product, not a half-ass product. →
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- Brian Kernighan Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first ... →
- Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut In theory, there is no difference between theory and practic... →
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- Leon Bambrick There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalid... →
- Fred Brooks Nine women can't make a baby in one month. →
- Anonymous God could create the world in six days because he didn't hav... →
- Paul Downey Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your o... →
- Phil Karlton There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache ... →
- Richard Pattis When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remo... →
- Sam Redwine Software and cathedrals are much the same – first we build t... →
- Bjarne Stroustrup There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people compl... →
- Joe Armstrong The problem with object-oriented languages is they've got al... →