Mystical Programming Koans

• "The first few lines must 'hook' the computer, and make it 'care' about the program" -- one of the many mystical koans of the random koan generator known to earthlings as DanTwedt
• "Test-first coding is not a testing technique" -- WardCunningham
• You can't algorithmise programming.
• By designing you learn to design. By making programs you learn to make programs.
• "Because I'm smarter than the average firewall, Booboo!"
• Have I spent enough time learning C++?

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See also http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html, http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html

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