Programming Quotes

Know what you are talking about.

— Pope John Paul II

Ethernet always wins.

— Andy Bechtolsheim

Beauty is our business.

— Edsger Dijkstra

It's true I was a late developer.

— Rodri

“Death: The Final Genetic Code”

— Joey Lawsin

I was a programmer.

— Paul Allen

Fancy optimizers have fancy bugs.

— Rosamund Pike

“We are Code Jiminy.”

— Ridley Pearson

“Switch Recommends a Coding Career for You and Matches You to Courses”

— Anonymous

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

— Pete Seeger

“Programming is the art of doing one thing at a time”

— Michael Feathers

I started programming Apples in seventh grade.

— Steve Jurvetson

Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.

— Douglas Crockford

“when in Pythonland, do as Pythonistas do, not as C programmers do.”

— Mark Lutz

There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'.

— Edward Tufte

We just have to come in every morning and somehow, launch the editor.

— Joel Spolsky

“If you program a machine, you know what it’s capable of. If the machine is programming itself, who knows what it might…

— Garry Kasparov

“An interface is a contract between you, the code developer, and the compiler.”

— Anonymous

Beware of "the real world". A speaker's apeal to it is always an invitation not to challenge his tacit assumptions.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group from another.

— Geert Hofstede

You don't have to be a nerd or a programmer or a network engineer to make a difference.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin…

— Dan Brown

Every program has two purposes: The one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.

— Alan Perlis

If you think something is impossible, don't disturb the person who is doing it!

— Amar Bose

The U.S. space program has mythologies attached to pioneering and conquering, but the Russian tradition is very different. In the Russian tradition,…

— Trevor Paglen

The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts. I believe the hard part of building software to be…

— Fred Brooks

Expectation loiters in the DNA of every sentient being; when you tell yourself or a loved one, 'Don't get your hopes up,'…

— Martha Beck

Some computers have security software that make it impossible to hack into, and it's the same with brains - some malfunction, and…

— Keith Barry

Cats are the slipperiest of domestic animals. Thousands of years of genetic coding has taught them to melt into azaleas, lie motionless…

— Caroline Paul

Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's…

— Ayn Rand

You go to any MBA program, and you will be taught the theory of the firm, that the purpose of the firm…

— Peter Senge

The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates,…

— Ben Bernanke

I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the…

— Gloria Estefan

“On the second to last day, Lt. Russo, who ran the program, announced, "Unless you were at dinner last night and had…

— Edward Conlon

A great writer named Neal Stephenson said that America does four things better than any other country in the world: rock music,…

— Courtney Love

When you develop software, the people who write the software, the developers are the key group but the testers also play an…

— Bill Gates

Apostolic and missionary fruitfulness is not principally due to programmes and pastoral methods that are cleverly drawn up and "efficient", but is…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“Where the parents are not 'good enough' the rest of the programme for life may be distorted and later stages in the…

— Anthony Stevens

It's simply unrealistic to depend on secrecy for security in computer software. You may be able to keep the exact workings of…

— Whitfield Diffie

“We cannot achieve deployments on demand if every code deployment requires two weeks to set up our test environments and data sets,…

— Gene Kim