Programming Quotes

653 quotes by 371 authors

What is a decision? It's a tool to remove confusion! Are you confused? If so, then make the decision and let's move on! — Brian Valentine
Writing code is not production, it's not always craftsmanship though it can be, it's design. — Joel Spolsky
When I was 9, I went to a birthday party. We were supposed to see a cowboy movie, but the programming got screwed up and… — Robert Englund
Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. — Philip Greenspun
SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing. — Philip Greenspun
I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good… — Douglas Adams
To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge. — Grace Hopper
I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming. — Ted Koppel
We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed. . . . We are programmed by the culture as surely as… — Andrea Dworkin
If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an… — Hal Abelson
Our knowledge and understanding of nonhuman animals is polluted far more than we acknowledge by our belief in our own superiority, our unrecognized cultural programming,… — Will Tuttle
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better… — Rick Cook
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. — Brian Kernighan
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost. — Bjarne Stroustrup
Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming. — Tony Hoare
... programming requires more concentration than other activities. It's the reason programmers get upset about 'quick interruptions' - such interruptions are tantamount to asking a… — Steve McConnell
There's a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code… — Joel Spolsky
Over the last 25 years, the American free enterprise system created the most diverse video programming on earth with the best value for the customer.… — Kyle E. McSlarrow
Last year was the fourth or fifth attempt to get fall launched till 'American Idol' comes in January. To be honest, the reality programming we… — Mike Darnell
Making two possibilities a reality. Predicting the future of things we all know. Fighting off the diseased programming Of centuries, centuries, centuries, centuries. Science fails… — Serj Tankian

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