Hard Quote by Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Programming is much much harder than doing mathematics.

— Doron Zeilberger

Programming is all about numbers.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy…

— Damian Conway

When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.

— Bill Gates

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

— Brian Kernighan

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

— Seth Lloyd

Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.

— Tony Hoare

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.

— John Carmack

“Programming is the art of doing one thing at a time”

— Michael Feathers

Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express…

— Erik Naggum

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.

— Niklaus Wirth