Despicable Quote by Edward Yourdon

It is a mistake to think that programmers wares are programs. Programmers have to produce trustworthy solutions and present it in the form of…

— Edsger Dijkstra

Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.

— Donald Knuth

If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use…

— Richard Stallman

If you, or any public-spirited programmer, wanted to figure out what the software on your machine is really doing, tough luck. It's illegal to…

— Clive Thompson

Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.

— Donald Knuth

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

— Donald Knuth

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

— Richard Stallman

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

It's simply unrealistic to depend on secrecy for security in computer software. You may be able to keep the exact workings of the program…

— Whitfield Diffie

If we can't program it, we can't understand it.

— David Deutsch

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

— Henry Spencer

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to…

— Linus Torvalds