Programming Quotes

653 quotes by 371 authors

The outside conditions of your life do not make you feel either secure or insecure. One person may feel secure with practically no money at… — Ken Keyes Jr.
We are not the personalities that our egos are so valiantly defending. Our personalities are simply the result of our current programming. — Ken Keyes Jr.
Whenever you feel upset, take full responsibility for the emotions that you are experiencing. Get to work as quickly as possible identifying the programming, or… — Ken Keyes Jr.
Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very fast… — J. C. R. Licklider
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging… — Maurice Wilkes
Your programming leads to your thoughts; your thoughts lead to your feelings; your feelings lead to your actions; your actions leads to your results. Therefore,… — T. Harv Eker
Culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group from another. — Geert Hofstede
You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up. — Tony Hoare
The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful language is. Once… — Richard Stallman
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple. — Grady Booch
Just remember: you're not a 'dummy,' no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who-though technically expert-couldn't design hardware and… — Walt Mossberg
Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment. — Kent Beck
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. — Robert Sewell
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. — Alan Perlis
Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve… — Stewart Alsop II
The greatest single programming language ever designed — Alan Kay
FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. — Alan Perlis
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script. — Larry Wall
I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. — Alan Kay
Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry — Ted Nelson

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