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“The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.”
― Selected Papers on Computer Science
― Selected Papers on Computer Science
“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.”
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“Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.”
― Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About (Volume 136)
― Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About (Volume 136)
“Do The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work”
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“The editor will be an extension of your hand; the keys will sing as they slice their way through text and thought.”
― The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
― The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
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