The Tao of Programming
Geek June 6th. 2009, 7:05am
(Picture is from Taoist Tai Chi blog.)
Before continue reading…. this is just a random posting from a programmer. If you are non-programmer, you might not understand this posting at all.
Recently, I read about The Tao of Programming and found some interesting ’doctrine’ or ‘principles’ for programmers. I just want to share some of them here. For complete list of Tao of Programming, you can either read Geoffrey James’ book or visit the online version.
After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless.
Let the programmers be many and the managers few — then all will be productive.
You can demonstrate a program for a corporate executive, but you can’t make him computer literate.
Without the wind, the grass does not move. Without software, hardware is useless.
September 2nd, 2009 at 5:52 am
“A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.”
how true