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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer. — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in. — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. — Tom Van Vleck Copy Share Image
It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of Courage-to move in the opposite direction. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking. — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
The structure of a software system provides the ecology in which code is born, matures, and dies. A well-designed habitat allows for… — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. — Robert Sewell Copy Share Image
“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole… — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
You have to honor failure, because failure is just the negative space around success. — Richard R. Nelson Copy Share Image
The three most important aspects of debugging and real estate are the same: Location, Location, and Location. — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
There are two types of computer languages; those that people hate and those that nobody uses. — John Ousterhout Copy Share Image
