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“On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”
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“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”
― Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
― Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
“That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.”
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“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live”
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“Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.”
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Chad’s 2025 Year in Books
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