Answers Quote by Brian Kernighan

I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or…

— Tony Hoare

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.

— Stan Kelly-Bootle

Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.

— Brian Kernighan

“It's impossible to build large applications in JavaScript, but only as much as it is in any other programming dialect. Ideally, you should be…

— Addy Osmani

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

— Larry Wall

It is hard to write even the smallest piece of code correctly.

— Joshua Bloch

The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in conventional [mathematical]…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

“Do not be alarmed by the minor inconsistencies in the syntax. They are meant to heighten your level of attention and thereby make you…

— David Geary

“When Ruby programmers say that some class “quacks like an Array,” they usually mean that it’s not necessarily an Array nor a descendant of…

— Armando Fox

“The first form, a short variable declaration, is the most compact, but it may be used only within a function, not for package-level variables.”

— Alan A. A. Donovan

If you have script problems and you don't fix them by the time you shoot, your script problems are now 40 feet tall.

— Bruce Campbell

Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.

— Tony Hoare