Computer programming Quotes · Page 3

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

— Tom DeMarco

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

Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.

— Brian Kernighan

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

— Alan Perlis

The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.

— Gordon Bell

Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime.

— Muhammad Waseem

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.

— Kent Beck

I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be…

— Tony Hoare

Art history and Elizabethan poetry don't employ workers; the arduous and tedious application of business sciences such as computer programming and accounting…

— Edward Conard

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

— Maya Lin

Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve…

— Alfred Aho

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

— Maimonides

I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code…

— Linus Torvalds

Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century,…

— Stephen Hawking

“Pascal (Object Pascal - Free Pascal) for real programmers, Delphi for Nerds... C/C++ for people who always wishes to do things like…

— Rejie Roque

The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly.…

— Anonymous

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

We often treat children as if they're not very competent to do anything on their own. So we make them stop learning…

— Seymour Papert

“deliberate practice” to describe this style of serious study, defining it formally as an “activity designed, typically by a teacher, for the…

— Cal Newport

The important point is that the cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost…

— John Carmack

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

— Fred Brooks

I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please…

— Jacques Barzun

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

— David Gelernter

I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer.

— Douglas Adams

This week Apple stores are holding free computer programming classes for children. Or as that's called in China, a job fair.

— Conan O'Brien

“meritocracies. Computer programming didn't operate as an old-boy network,”

— Anonymous

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely…

— Edsger Dijkstra

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

— 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 best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

— John Ousterhout

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as 'lines produced' but as 'lines spent.'

— Edsger Dijkstra

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

— Andrei Codrescu

Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

— Jim Horning

I made my first website in sixth grade. I was the only girl in my computer programming class.

— iJustine

If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it.

— Richard E. Pattis

Computer programming is pretty much guaranteed income. I'm good at it, and I like it.

— Andy Weir

You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.

— Tony Hoare

Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.

— Larry Wall

It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.

— Steve McConnell