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An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.

Bjarne Stroustrup

[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
There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.
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Stories Technology Wish
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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Language Perfect Salesman
I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Able Assuming Forbidden
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
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
There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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Awful Beautiful Developed System
Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.
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Carefully Feaaturism Ideas Inconsistences Promoted
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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Important Learning Simplicity
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools

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