Quote by Mark Lutz

“Moreover, depending on your Python and code, list comprehensions might run much faster than manual for loop statements (often roughly twice as fast) because…

— Mark Lutz

“Python is good enough for code that only has to respond to a single user at human speed, but not usually for code that…

— Anonymous

“Scanners can’t choose one direction. It’s like telling a parent to choose one child to feed. It’s just not possible. A parent knows she…

— Barbara Sher

“You can do anything with stacks and iteration that you can do with recursion.”

— Steve McConnell

Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object.... this [isn't] so. There are things that are objects. Things that have state and change…

— Alexander Stepanov

“An algorithm gives you the instructions directly. A heuristic tells you how to discover the instructions for yourself, or at least where to look…

— Steve McConnell

It is, therefore, possible to extend a partially specified interpretation to a complete interpretation, without loss of verifiability... This fact offers the possibility of…

— Robert W. Floyd

“Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches.”

— Paul Graham

Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension.

— Verity Stob

Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and expressiveness is…

— Guido van Rossum

“One such usage is the turtle module (which is also part of the standard library). To quote the Python docs: Turtle graphics is a…

— Paul Barry

“when in Pythonland, do as Pythonistas do, not as C programmers do.”

— Mark Lutz