ProgrammingQuotes

Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. - Edward V. Berard

If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on, and the dedication to go through with it. - John Carmack

Program designers have a tendency to think of the users as idiots who need to be controlled. They should rather think of their program as a servant, whose master, the user, should be able to control it. - John McCarthy (computer scientist)

All too many of our software systems are, architecturally, little more than shantytowns. - Joseph Yoder (computer scientist)

A programmer who subconsciously views himself as an artist will enjoy what he does and will do it better. - Donald Knuth

An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only. - Bjarne Stroustrup

Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer. - Jamie Zawinski

The button is working, only, it cannot be seen. - Anonymous

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind. - Ted Nelson

Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming will be too difficult for "the average programmer" — you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner. - Edsger W. Dijkstra

Deleted code is debugged code. - Jeff Sickel

If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. - Linus Torvalds

I think one of the most valuable rules is avoid duplication. - Martin Fowler

Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity. - Dennis Ritchie

Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window. - Steve Wozniak

When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke

You should name a variable using the same care with which you name a first-born child. - Jim Coplien

The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value. - Ada Lovelace

I’ll throw away code as soon I want to add something to it and I get the feeling that what I have to do to add it is too hard. - Ken Thompson