Programming Quotes

Code writers, they are my idols.

— will.i.am

“I write in code.”

— Abigail George

I was a late developer.

— Adam Lallana

There are programs that don't work.

— Sam Graves

“We are Code Jiminy.”

— Ridley Pearson

Fancy optimizers have fancy bugs.

— Rosamund Pike

The best writing is rewriting.

— E. B. White

Programming is all about numbers.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

“If you want more autonomy, why not code autonomy into the system?”

— Richie Norton

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

— Niklaus Wirth

Once a viral program gets started, there is nothing to stop it.

— Richard Dawkins

Social Security is the most important social program in America.

— Dick Durbin

“we program our computers and thereafter they program us. Even”

— Nicholas Carr

Bugs lurk in corners and congregate at boundaries.

— Boris Beizer

“Remember, code is your house, and you have to live in it.”

— Michael C. Feathers

“YOU are the magic code that unlocks your happiness.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

“If you're already a front-end developer, well, pretend you're also wearing a pirate hat.”

— Ethan Marcotte

Once you land a jump, you put it straight in the program. That's the way I've always been doing it.

— Nathan Chen

I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like.

— Paul Buchheit

The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making.

— Edsger Dijkstra

“The Zip Code is about the size of Chicago. With five people. But hey, welcome to Wyoming.”

— Lee Child

Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also…

— Tony Hoare

In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. Its nauseating, programme after programme.

— Ken Stott

You are being programmed all day, every day. You can't stop it, but you can determine if the programming is positive or…

— Randy Gage

“The bitcoin transaction script language, called Script, is a Forth-like reverse-polish notation stack-based execution language. If that sounds like gibberish, you probably…

— Andreas M. Antonopoulos

Rule 1. You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try…

— Rob Pike

It feels like it is a daily work and an ongoing task to undo all of the f - - g programming…

— Amanda Palmer

“Once a patient goes brain dead and relatives sign his organ donation consent form, he will get the best medical treatment of…

— Dick Teresi

It would seem that in Paine's view the code of government should be that of the legendary King Pausole, who prescribed but…

— Albert J. Nock

With every (informative) photograph, the photographic program becomes poorer by one possibility while the photographic universe becomes richer by one realization.

— Vilem Flusser

Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results…

— Niklaus Wirth

First, a confession: I liked 'The Da Vinci Code.' This news is even more of a surprise to me than it might…

— Sarah Weinman

You have to watch CNN, MSNBC, Fox and then the local news and then Al Jazeera. The truth is somewhere in the…

— Eddie Griffin

“If you must give me a label, then label me a human being. I have no pride in being a human, though,…

— Paul Krassner

Much better than it has been all week. I got sick again this week, so I wasn't really able to breathe. I…

— Gabrielle Daleman

And ultimately, it's good for all of us to have more original programming on the air. Business doesn't drive the creative. So,…

— Nina Tassler

A middle ground might be to fight for same-sex marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the institution of marriage…

— Michelangelo Signorile

In the early stages of negotiation software, on your smartphone, there may be programs that listen to the pitch of a voice,…

— Tyler Cowen

It's my job for Oracle, the number two software company in the world; to become the number one software company in the…

— Larry Ellison

I only use the computer for editing. I don't have an eight-track, otherwise I probably never would have bought a computer. When…

— Kevin Drumm