Computer language Quotes · Page 2

More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known.

— Boris Beizer

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

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

— Jacques Barzun

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

— Richard E. Pattis

Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end.

— Khalil Gibran

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

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

— Tom DeMarco

Question authority; but, raise your hand first.

— Alan Dershowitz

Not only is example the best way to teach, it is the only way.

— Albert Schweitzer

Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

— Vladimir Lenin

When the words are fuzzy, the programmers reflexively retreat to the most precise method of articulation available: source code. Although there is…

— Amari Cooper

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

— Anonymous

Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

— Alan Kay

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn…

— Jacques Barzun

We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.

— Victor Hugo

There is a race between the increasing complexity of the systems we build and our ability to develop intellectual tools for understanding…

— Leslie Lamport

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

— Larry Wall

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

— David Allen

Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

— Gore Vidal

To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end…

— Jim Horning

One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.

— John Dewey

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

— Larry Wall

The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a…

— Verity Stob

That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally…

— George Boole