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• First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style.
  Then forget all that and just hack. -- George Carrette [1990]...
• Live and learn; die and forget it all.
• Atomic Theory: A mythological explanation of the nature of matter, first proposed by the ancient Greeks, and now thoroughly discredited by modern computer simulation.
  Attempts to verify the theory by modern computer simulation have failed....
• Quote #41 As practiced by computer science, the study of programming is an unholy mixture of mathematics, literary criticism, and folklore.
  -- B. A. Sheil, 1981...
• We learn through direct experience; to accept a theory without experiencing it is to learn nothing at all.
• brute force adj. Describes a primitive programming style
  one in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing power instead of using his or her own intelligence to simplify the problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive methods suited to small problems directly to large ones....
• Quote #686 Computer Science is the first engineering discipline in which the complexity of the objects created is limited solely by the skill of the creato
  and not by the strength of raw materials. -- B. Reid...
• Quote #350 "You are caught in a maze of twisty little Sendmail rules, all obscure.
  -- _Sendmail: Theory and Practice_, Avolio and Vixie...
• Computer Science is merely the post-Turing decline in formal systems theory.