Clock Quote by Ellen Ullman

Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy…

— Damian Conway

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

— Donald Knuth

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

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

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

— David Deutsch

Programming is all about numbers.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.

— Anonymous

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

Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about [the goto statement]. I have the uncomfortable feeling that others…

— Edsger Dijkstra

When we had no computers, we had no programming problem either. When we had a few computers, we had a mild programming problem. Confronted…

— Edsger Dijkstra

When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make…

— Tim Berners-Lee

“nobody seemed to think programming is a solved problem: most are still looking for a better way to write software, whether by finding ways…

— Peter Seibel