« All Programming Quotes · Philip Greenspun's Page
Programming Quotes by Philip Greenspun
- 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.
- SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.
More Programming Quotes
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
- If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. — Robert Sewell
- They know enough who know how to learn. — Henry Adams
- I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should… — Ray Bradbury
- Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share… — John Carmack
- Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming. — P.J. O'Rourke
- When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop. — Alan Perlis