Quotes About Data Structures

#1. The programmer's primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be to reorganize the modules' data structures.

Fred Brooks

#2. Procedural code (code using data structures) makes it easy to add new functions without changing the existing data structures. OO code, on the other hand, makes it easy to add new classes without changing existing functions.

Robert C. Martin

#3. Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.

Eric S. Raymond

#4. It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.

Anonymous

#5. Learn when and how to use different data structures and their algorithms in your own code. This is harder as a student, as the problem assignments you'll work through just won't impart this knowledge. That's fine.

Robert Love

#6. Realize you won't master data structures until you are working on a real-world problem and discover that a hash is the solution to your performance woes.

Robert Love

#7. Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.

Douglas Crockford

#8. Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.

Rob Pike

#9. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

Linus Torvalds

#10. The key to a solid foundation in data structures and algorithms is not an exhaustive survey of every conceivable data structure and its subforms, with memorization of each's Big-O value and amortized cost.

Robert Love

#11. Compassion is what you're good at. I'm better at complex searches through organized data structures.

Orson Scott Card

#12. The complement is also true: Procedural code makes it hard to add new data structures because all the functions must change. OO code makes it hard to add new functions because all the classes must change.

Robert C. Martin

#13. So, I think I would say, enjoy the process of learning to dance. The process of our profession, and not its final achievement, is the heart and soul of dance.

Jacques D'Amboise

#14. All human troubles derive from our inability to sit still and alone in a room.

Blaise Pascal

#15. It's only because the data force us into corners that we are inspired to create the highly counterintuitive structures that form the basis for modern physics.

Sean Carroll

#16. I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.

Benjamin Carson

#17. I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.

Merton Miller

#18. I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the Bible into all the languages of the world, and to do that you had to study linguistics, and so that was my initial exposure to linguistics.

Daniel Everett

#19. Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with.

Sean Penn

#20. I have only recently got interested in film, and it is a strange way of working in many ways. But actually, when it is at its best, it's quite an extraordinary way of working between a director and an actor, to really explore an inner life.

Dan Stevens

#21. I had the perfect job for a gamer. From February to October, I'd get up at 7 in the morning with nothing to do but play games until I had to be at the park around 1 or 2 o'clock. When I got back after the game, I played until 3 or 4 in the morning.

Curt Schilling

#22. As wonderful as charity is, that money runs out. It's not sustainable. It lasts for a certain period of time and it's gone. What i really think people need is the opportunity to help themselves.

Emma Watson

#23. And we pray, and we pray and we pray and we pray.
Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday ...

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