Programming Quotes

Doug Linder A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing ... →
Simone Carletti There's no such thing as a 10 minute fix. →
Douglas Crockford It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that ... →
Francesc Campoy Fake it until you make it. →
Jeff Atwood When you're explaining something to somebody and they don't get it, that... →
Thorben "Why ruby? Because I can!", Javier Ramirez #euruko →
Tim Bray There is a distressing absence of women in this community and that is so... →
Chris Pine So why was it so hard to tell a computer to do something only mildly com... →
Chris Pine Either way you look at it (DRY or laziness), the idea is the same: make ... →
Chris Pine The ~ is just a short way of saying "your home directory", which is just... →
Chris Pine Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure ou... →
Brian Marick Scripting is like riding a bicycle: you don't learn it by reading about ... →
Brian Marick Duplicate code is a major cause of unmaintainable scripts. →
Brian Marick A technique that often works well is one I call scripting by assumption.... →
Brian Marick Don't worry about the wasted effort unless you know - by measurement - t... →
Jason Fried Here's the problem with copying: Copying skips understanding. Understand... →
Jason Fried I don't understand the cultural fascination with failure being the sourc... →
Jason Fried There's a significant difference between "now I know what to do again" a... →
Anonymous In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. →
Yogi Berra In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not. →
Pesto Details are magical things which allow us to know what the hell you're t... →
Rick Osborne Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a vi... →
Chris Heilmann Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet. →
Bjarne Stroustrup There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about an... →
Antoine de Saint Exupéry Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when ... →
Keith Bostic Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryp... →
Bill Bryson A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart t... →
Martin Fowler Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers... →
Anonymous It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature. →
Linus Torvalds Software is like sex: It's better when it's free. →
Michael Sinz Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the ... →
Buckminster Fuller When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think ... →
Anonymous I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code. →
Ovidiu Platon I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machi... →
Anonymous Theory is when one knows everything, but nothing works. Practice is when... →
Alexander Dvorkovyy Code never lies, comments do. →
Simone Carletti The fact it works doesn't mean it is correct. →
Simone Carletti Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. →
Simone Carletti Programming is about learning something new every day. →
37signals If you try to please everyone, you won't please anyone. →
37signals Build half a product, not a half-ass product. →
Brad Appleton, Software Engineer There is No CODE that is more flexible than NO Code! →
Matthijs Hollemans The iPhone may pretend it's a phone but it's really a pretty advanced co... →
Brian Kernighan Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. There... →
Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in p... →
Edsger Dijkstra If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming ... →
Leon Bambrick There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, namin... →
Fred Brooks Nine women can't make a baby in one month. →
Anonymous God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it... →
Paul Downey Debugging is like farting - it's not so bad when it's your own code. →
Phil Karlton There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation... →
Richard Pattis When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective... →
Sam Redwine Software and cathedrals are much the same – first we build them, then we... →
Bjarne Stroustrup There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about an... →
Joe Armstrong The problem with object-oriented languages is they've got all this impli... →