The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

  • -- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 艾兹格·迪科斯彻

有能力的程序员充分意识到自己头骨的有限大小。因此,他以充分的谦卑来完成他的任务,并避免像瘟疫一样的聪明的诡计。

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Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

一个称职的工人如果不花大量的时间研究他的工作究竟有多慢,同时又能使他的雇主相信他干得不错,那他是很难找到的。

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.

由于摩尔定律的本质,一个极其聪明的图形程序员在某一时刻所能做的任何事情,都可以在若干年后被一个仅仅有能力的程序员所复制。

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.

低层次编程对程序员的灵魂有益。