Programming Quotes

"The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity."

"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."

Harold Abelson

"First, solve the problem. Then, write the code."

John Johnson

"Talk is cheap. Show me the code."

Linus Torvalds

"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."

Bill Gates

"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand."

Martin Fowler

"Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it's bad."

Cory House

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil."

Donald Knuth

"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

"The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver."

Joseph Weizenbaum

"Truth can only be found in one place: the code."

Robert C. Martin

"Make it work, make it right, make it fast."

Kent Beck

"Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter."

Eric S. Raymond

"Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris."

Larry Wall

“If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.”

Edsger Dijkstra

“Premature optimization is the root of all evil.”

Donald Knuth

“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.”

Donald Knuth

“Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects of beauty.”

Donald Knuth

“Everybody in this country should learn to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.”

Steve Jobs

“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”

Linus Torvalds

“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

“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”

Martin Fowler

“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”

Harold Abelson

“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.”

Brian Kernighan

“Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.”

Brian Kernighan