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For a long time it was a mystery to me how something very expensive and technologically advanced could be so useless. And I soon realized that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, whereas programmers are smart people who have the talent to do incredibly stupid things. In short, they found each other. — Bill Bryson

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Learning programming cannot teach you how to be an expert, just as learning brushes and paints cannot turn someone into an artist. — Eric S. Raymond

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Don't worry if something doesn't work. If everything had worked, you would have been fired. Mosher’s Law of Software Engineering

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"There are two approaches to programming. The first is to make the program so simple that there are obviously no errors in it. And the second is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious mistakes in it." Tony Hoare. Professor, engaged in the implementation of Algol 60, now a researcher at Microsoft Research.

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Don't worry if something doesn't work. If everything had worked, you would have been fired. Mosher’s Law of Software Engineering

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"Moving from Pascal programming to C programming is like learning to write in Morse code." J.P. Candusso.

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