“When in doubt, use brute force.”
Ken Thompson
Programming Quotes
33 FAMOUS QUOTES · PROGRAMMING
Programming Quotes
Read 33 famous programming quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
“I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965.”
C. A. R. Hoare
“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”
Rich Cook
“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”
Bill Gates
“Good code is its own best documentation.”
Steve McConnell
“One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.”
Ken Thompson
“I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.”
Kent Beck
“Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out.”
Chris Pine