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The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language. ↗

— Donald Knuth

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Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it. ↗

— Donald Knuth

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Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do. ↗

— Donald Knuth

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People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird. ↗

— Donald Knuth

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The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent. ↗

— Donald Knuth

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I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#architectural #architectures #defining #disciplines #ends

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

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More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book. ↗

— Ted Koppel

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Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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That, for me, is a very important test of a young writer's commitment because most of them are going to have to continue doing that when they've finished the program. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

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