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Programming Quotes by Tony Hoare
- You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.
- Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.
- I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or if…
- In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the recognition…
- What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related?…
- Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all…
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- If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
- They know enough who know how to learn. — Henry Adams
- I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should… — Ray Bradbury
- Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share… — John Carmack
- Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming. — P.J. O'Rourke
- When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop. — Alan Perlis
- Whenever you feel upset, take full responsibility for the emotions that you are experiencing. Get to work as quickly as possible identifying… — Ken Keyes Jr.