The Tao of Programming

This is a copy of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tao_of_Programming

with another online version:

http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html

This is a very old document, but packed full of interesting and useful ideas. I particularly recall being impressed with section 3.3 as a young lad, but section 5.1 also has the acid bite of truth.