3 Quotes for today
When I speak about computer programming as an art, I am thinking primarily of it as an art form, in an aesthetic sense. The chief goal of my work as an educator and author is to help people learn how to write beautiful programs… My feeling is that when we prepare a program, the experience can be just like composing poetry or music… Some programs are elegant, some are exquisite, some are sparkling. My claim is that it is possible to write grand programs, noble programs, truly magnificent ones! Programmers who subconsciously view themselves as artists will enjoy what they do and will do it better.
- Donald Knuth (Turing Award Speech 1974)
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability
- Edsger W. Dijkstra
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
