Programming Quote by Daniel Jackson

“I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not the labor of representing…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

“I don’t predict the demise of object-oriented programming, by the way. Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code.”

— Paul Graham

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

— Alan Perlis

First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but…

— Hal Abelson

Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think…

— Larry Wall

“Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it. Our applications are complex because we are ambitious to use our computers in ever…

— C.A.R. Hoare

One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps the most…

— Fred Brooks

Computer scientists have so far worked on developing powerful programming languages that make it possible to solve the technical problems of computation. Little effort…

— Donald A. Norman

“Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches.”

— Paul Graham

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…

— Rick Cook

One of the great enemies of design is when systems or objects become more complex than a person - or even a team of…

— Bran Ferren

Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,…

— Tony Hoare