Programming languages Quotes · Page 5

It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.

— Larry Wall

JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.

— Douglas Crockford

Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

— Niels Bohr

Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.

— Tom Van Vleck

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

— Alan Perlis

The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.

— Amari Cooper

It has been discovered that C++ provides a remarkable facility for concealing the trival details of a program - such as where…

— Robert D Keppel

In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.

— Maimonides

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

— Andrei Codrescu

It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or…

— Erik Naggum

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

— Edsger Dijkstra

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

— Tom Duff

Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better.

— Derek Sivers

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

— Alan Kay

People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what…

— Bjarne Stroustrup

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

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have…

— Donald Knuth

For his major contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages, and in particular for his contributions to…

— Donald Knuth

I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being…

— John Backus

C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple…

— Linus Torvalds

Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong…

— Edsger Dijkstra

I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no…

— Rasmus Lerdorf

More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including…

— William Wulf

“Unlike in most programming languages, SQL treats null as a special value, different from zero, false, or an empty string.”

— Anonymous

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

— Richard E. Pattis

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

— Hayley Mills

It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of Courage-to move in the opposite direction.

— Albert Einstein

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

— Seymour Papert

The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.

— Edsger Dijkstra