Programming Quotes

653 quotes by 371 authors

Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success. — Tom DeMarco
People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on… — Donald Knuth
Go is no Erlang, Smalltalk or Scheme, nothing pure. But it works great and is fun! — Frank Muller
Go isn't functional, it's pragmatical. Why pure paradigms like FP or OOP are always a must? (sigh) — Frank Muller
Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful. — Rob Pike
Go is such a refreshing language to program in, there is very little clutter just the stuff you need to get the job done — Matthew West
Porting a Google App Engine app written in Python to Go: Although I'm new to Go I get much quicker results than I've got with… — Aleksandr Mikhailovich Orlov
Go is most fun I've had with a compiled PL since I've discovered Turbo Pascal as a kid. — Bojan Markovic
A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would. — Joel Spolsky
Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely… — John Carmack
Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because… — Jamie Zawinski
Decisions in 10 minutes or less, or the next one is free. — Brian Valentine
Good software, like wine, takes time. — Joel Spolsky
Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul. — John Carmack
Not having a schedule is OK if it's your PhD and you plan to spend 14 years on the thing, or if you're a programmer… — Joel Spolsky
Something is usable if it behaves exactly as expected. — Joel Spolsky
The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to… — John Carmack
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with… — John Carmack
The power efficiency of computing has improved by a factor of a billion from the ENIAC computer of the 1950s to today's handheld devices. Fundamental… — R. Stanley Williams
We just have to come in every morning and somehow, launch the editor. — Joel Spolsky

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