Programming Quotes

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If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you. — Eric S. Raymond
To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you. — Eric S. Raymond
Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are… — Eric S. Raymond
When writing gateway software of any kind, take pains to disturb the data stream as little as possible - and never throw away information unless… — Eric S. Raymond
Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong. — Eric S. Raymond
Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers. — Eric S. Raymond
A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets. — Eric S. Raymond
When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend. — Eric S. Raymond
If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource. — Eric S. Raymond
Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected. — Eric S. Raymond
Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging. — Eric S. Raymond
The cost of a semiconductor chip fabrication plant doubles every four years. — Arthur Rock
Motors make noise and that tells you about the feelings and attitudes that went into it. Something was more important than sensory pleasure - nobody… — Philip Slater
Every invention creates new needs, but the biggest needs are not for new and more advanced versions of the last invention but for solutions to… — Philip Slater
I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to… — Socrates
[The Internet] is a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put… — Theodore Stevens
You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you've reached that point, you can only shift the burden around. — Larry Tesler
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books. — Alan Turing
All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image… — Leonardo da Vinci
A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental… — Steven Weinberg

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