Thierry Chappuis

“Some of the best programming is done on paper, really. Putting it into the computer is just a minor detail.”
― Max Kanat-Alexander, Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software

“So if an algorithm is an idealized recipe, a program is the detailed set of instructions for a cooking robot preparing a month of meals for an army while under enemy attack,”
― Kernighan Brian W.

“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”
― Martin Fowler

“The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.”
― Alan Kay