Handle Quote by Douglas McIlroy

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

— Ken Thompson

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.

— Alan Perlis

When you write a program, think of it primarily as a work of literature. You're trying to write something that human beings are going…

— Donald Knuth

UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity.

— Dennis Ritchie

I write my programs primarily for myself.

— Bill Budge

UNIX always presumes you know what you're doing. You're the human being, after all, and it is a mere operating system.

— Ellen Ullman

Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.

— Tom Van Vleck

Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of…

— Tim O'Reilly

Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful…

— Bill Gates

Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.

— Alan Perlis

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

— Donald Knuth

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

— Anonymous