“Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.”
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programming
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Voices on programming
“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”
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“Learning to program teaches you how to think. Computer science is a liberal art.”
“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”
“[Lisp is the] greatest single programming language ever designed.”
http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2003/04/03/a...
“An API is like a joke, if you have to explain it it's not that good.”
https://twitter.com/francesc/status/508066994...
“These are thoughts that we can't think.”
http://vimeo.com/36579366#t=9m12s
“If there is any delay in that feedback loop between thinking of something and seeing it and building on it, then there is this whole world of ideas which will never be.”
http://vimeo.com/36579366#t=8m58s
“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.”
“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”
“Ideas are very important to me.”
http://vimeo.com/36579366#t=9m32s
“Maybe the best programmers aren't those who spectacularly solve crazy problems, but those who don't create them, which is much more silent.”
https://twitter.com/kilaulena/status/11147623...
“The secret to building large apps is never build large apps. Break your applications into small pieces. Then, assemble those testable, bite-sized pieces into your big application.”
“Don't start with a class. Start with a protocol.”
WWDC 2015, Session 408, 14:40
“There is the truth; everything else is a cache.”