Computer language Quotes · Page 2

A class, in Java, is where we teach objects how to behave.

— Richard E. Pattis

Good code is its own best documentation.

— Steve McConnell

Question authority; but, raise your hand first.

— Alan Dershowitz

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.

— David Allen

Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

— Vladimir Lenin

Successful software always gets changed.

— Fred Brooks

It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.

— Larry Wall

Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

— Niels Bohr

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.

— Stan Kelly-Bootle

I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

— Alan Kay

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.

— Donald Knuth

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be…

— Leonardo da Vinci

There are two types of computer languages; those that people hate and those that nobody uses.

— John Ousterhout

Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.

— Tom Van Vleck

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

— Alan Perlis

Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.

— Tom DeMarco

In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.

— Maimonides

But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good…

— Larry Wall

If our designs are failing due to the constant rain of changing requirements, it is our designs that are at fault. We…

— Robert Cecil Martin

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is…

— Bill Gates

We can think of descriptions almost as computer languages, an operative description that only deals with very simple operations. Its code is…

— Frederick Lenz

The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity,…

— Randall E. Stross

In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an…

— Sugata Mitra

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against…

— David Gelernter

First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform…

— Hal Abelson

When building a complex system, having crackerjack programmers (who can make any design work, even a bad one) can be a liability.…

— Richard E. Pattis

As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we…

— Maurice Wilkes

It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an…

— Andy Hertzfeld

So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that…

— Larry Wall

Although our grammar schools are teaching a whole generation computer language to adjust to the technological needs of a Stage II [post…

— Warren Farrell

The discipline of programming is most like sorcery. Both use precise language to instruct inanimate objects to do our bidding. Small mistakes…

— Richard E. Pattis

The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a…

— Fred Brooks

Experience comes from bad judgment.

— Mark Twain

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.

— Amari Cooper

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

— Alan Perlis

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

— Larry Wall

Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.

— Larry Wall

Code should run as fast as necessary, but no faster; something important is always traded away to increase speed.

— Richard E. Pattis

The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.

— Andrei Codrescu