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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.
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Initiative Matters People Practice Wasteful
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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Civilization Degree Fields
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category.
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Fall Inspiration Real
I do keep the main points straight in my head most of the time, and I do know where to find the details when I need them.
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Details Find Head Need
Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That’s inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.
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Insufficient Long Running Trying
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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Code Good Interface Need Really
[Corporate programming] is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate “culture” with no outlet for unique talents and skills.
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Outlet Practice Skills Unique
An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
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Able Organization Treat
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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Clever Dirty Thinking
It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.
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Efficient Keys Safe Together

Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.

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