Computer programming Quotes · Page 4

“I’ve wondered if I could take my computer programming skills and apply them to learning math.”

— Anonymous

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When teaching a rapidly changing technology, perspective is more important than content.

— Richard E. Pattis

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

— Boris Beizer

When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.

— Richard E. Pattis

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

— John Dewey

The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.

— Grady Booch

Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes…

— Hayley Mills

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

Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the…

— Harold Morowitz

The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he…

— Jacques Barzun

The Startup Act should give all Americans, not just immigrants, a better shot at being tomorrow's engineers and entrepreneurs. And that opportunity…

— Marvin Ammori

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

Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling…

— Tabatha Coffey

If I'm being completely honest, when it comes to artificial intelligence and computer programming... I bought this little book at Barnes and…

— Karl Glusman

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as…

— Brian Kernighan

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

As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we…

— Maurice Wilkes

“Thinking back to old-time computer programming in the days before programming languages supported internationalization, we used to have to “internationalize” our code.…

— Ben Horowitz

It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an…

— Andy Hertzfeld

If you really want to be a good archaeologist, you have to understand ancient DNA; you have to understand chemical analysis to…

— Sarah Parcak

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.

— William James

The three most important aspects of debugging and real estate are the same: Location, Location, and Location.

— Richard E. Pattis

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

— George Boole

If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets.

— Shawn Fanning

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.

— Anonymous

A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

— Edsger Dijkstra

If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

— Brian Kernighan

The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible].

— Tom Duff

The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less.

— David F. Emery

“In programming the World Wide Computer, we will be programming our lives.”

— Nicholas Carr

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

— John Ousterhout

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

— Richard E. Pattis

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

— iJustine

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

— Edsger Dijkstra

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

— Jim Horning

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

— Andrei Codrescu

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

— Richard E. Pattis

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

It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your…

— Steve McConnell