The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel. — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code. — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals. — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
“The genes are master programmers, and they are programming for their lives.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works. — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including… — William Wulf Copy Share Image
It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our… — Keith Braithwaite Copy Share Image
The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense… — Fernando J. Corbato Copy Share Image
It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
I believe C++ instills fear in programmers, fear that the interaction of some details causes unpredictable results. Its unmanageable complexity has spawned… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges,… — Ray Ozzie Copy Share Image
“Saying that programmers should just accomplish twice as much doesn't work. They can gain skills and effectiveness, but they cannot get more… — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety,… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already,… — Jaan Tallinn Copy Share Image
The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
With software products, it is usual to find that the software has major 'bugs' and does not work reliably for some users...… — David Parnas Copy Share Image
When we look at these historical women and what they've gone through, it's shocking to recognize some of our own experiences in… — Anita Sarkeesian Copy Share Image
UNIX has a philosophy, it has 25 years of history behind it, and most importantly, it has a clean core. It strives… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
In the mid-1980s, however, the Estonian TV programmers came up with a clever idea: they asked Moscow for millions of rubles to… — Jaak Kilmi Copy Share Image
John Carmack, who has become interested in focusing on things other than game development at id, has resigned from the studio. John’s… — Tim Willits Copy Share Image
“What was amazing was that a large team of highly intelligent programmers could labor so hard and so long on such an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively… — Edsger Dijkstra 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
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. — Robert Coveyou Copy Share Image
Testing proves a programmer’s failure. Debugging is the programmer’s vindication. — Boris Beizer Copy Share Image
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse) — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
I'm still a really shitty programmer, but I know enough to hack a prototype together. — Dennis Crowley Copy Share Image
