10個的有關編程的至理名言

李寬

程序員世界里有哪些名言警局呢?Jun Auza 列出了一些啟迪人心的至理名言，它們大多來自產業界富于經驗的人們。
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10. "People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones."- Donald Knuth

10. “人們認為計算機科學是天才的藝術，但事實完全相反：只是很多人在共同建立起來的事物之上工作，就像一條由小石頭鋪成的小徑。”—— Donald Knuth

9. “First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack.”- George Carrette

9. “首先學會計算機科學和所有的理論。然后發展出一個編程風格。之后便要忘掉所有這些，以自由的方式探索。”—— George Carrette

8. “Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.”- Larry Wall

8. “大多數的你們都熟悉程序員的美德。它們有三點：懶，不耐煩，以及狂妄自大。”—— Larry Wall

7. “Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other,with no structural integrity， but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.”- Alan Kay

7. “今日的大多數軟件很像埃及金字塔，由千百萬磚頭堆砌起來，層層相切，沒有著整體的結構，是由畜力和成千上萬奴隸的力量建立起來的。”—— Alan Kay

6. “The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.”- Seymour Cray

6. “程序員的問題是，不到太晚，你永遠無法知道一個他在做著些什么。”—— Seymour Cray

5. “To iterate is human, to recurse divine.”- L. Peter Deutsch

5. “人理解迭代，神理解遞歸。”—— Peter Deutsch

4. "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 rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."- Charles Babbage

4. “有兩次我被(國會議員)問道：‘ Mr. Babbage，如果你輸入計算機錯誤的數據，正確的答案會出來嗎?’我完全無法理解能產生此種問題的大腦的混亂。”

3. "Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program."- Linus Torvalds

3. “大部分好的程序員編程并不是為了錢或名望，而只是因為純粹的樂趣。”—— Linus Torvalds

2. "Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live."- Martin Golding

2. “編程的時候，總是想著那個維護你代碼的人會是一個知道你住在哪兒的有暴力傾向的精神病患者。”—— Martin Golding

1. “There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.”- C.A.R. Hoare

1. “有兩種生成一個軟件設計方案的途徑。一個是把它做得如此簡單，以致于明顯不會有漏洞存在。另一個是把它做的如此復雜，以致于不會有明顯的漏洞存在。”—— C.A.R. Hoare