Computer programming Quotes · Page 2

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of…

— Bill Gates

Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half…

— Philip Greenspun

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Learning to code makes kids feel empowered, creative, and confident. If we want our young women to retain these traits into adulthood,…

— Susan Wojcicki

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

— Bertrand Meyer

You don't have to believe everything you think.

— Erykah Badu

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

— Kent Beck

I think that computer programming shows in my writing. Often when I write about computer programmers I'll write about the way that…

— Walter Mosley

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

— Stan Kelly-Bootle

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

— Fred Brooks

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

— John W. Gardner

The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the…

— Henry Petroski

In those days [batch processing] programmers never even documented their programs, because it was assumed that nobody else would ever use them.…

— Robert Fano

The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are…

— Harlan Mills

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

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

— Tony Hoare

“If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would…

— Émilie Du Châtelet

I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take…

— Douglas Adams

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