On Programming: A bad day writing code in Scheme is better than a good day writing code in C. David Stigant More on Programming: Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. John F. Woods Yet more on Programming: Programming is just another name for the lost art of thinking. Arctic Fidelity aka Aaron Hsu On Mutation and Programming: Assignment leads to mutation. Mutation leads to pointers. Pointers lead to suffering! Anton van Straaten On Teaching Programming: Wir sind froh, dass die Absolventen schon Java können. Programmieren müssen wir denen halt noch beibringen. overheard in a German firm, via Mike Sperber More on Teaching Programming: You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up. C. A. R. Hoare One Final Word on Programming We shall do a much better programming job, provided we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that we respect the intrinsic limitations of the human mind and approach the task as very humble programmers. Alan Turing Before we get to the very final word I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand. Douglas Adams A postscript from XKCD on Java Golden HammerRandall Munroe, 4 Oct 2010