Code Quote by David Parnas

“Remember that code is really the language in which we ultimately express the requirements. We may create languages that are closer to the requirements.…

— Robert C. Martin

Most programming languages are decidedly inferior to mathematical notation and are little used as tools of thought in ways that would be considered significant…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

With the computer and programming languages, mathematics has newly-acquired tools, and its notation should be reviewed in the light of them. The computer may,…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

It's harder to read code than to write it.

— Joel Spolsky

The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in conventional [mathematical]…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

Although mathematical notation undoubtedly possesses parsing rules, they are rather loose, sometimes contradictory, and seldom clearly stated. [...] The proliferation of programming languages shows…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

The properties of executability and universality associated with programming languages can be combined, in a single language, with the well-known properties of mathematical notation…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus "theoretically," is to uselanguage in a Pickwickian…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

But actually a code is a language for translating one thing into another. And mathematics is the language of science. My big thesis is…

— Marcus du Sautoy

Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.

— William Thurston

It is hard to write even the smallest piece of code correctly.

— Joshua Bloch

I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or…

— Tony Hoare