Programming Quote by Gene Kim

“Some of the best programming is done on paper, really. Putting it into the computer is just a minor detail.”

— Max Kanat-Alexander

“complicated code is a sign that you don't understand your program well enough to make it simple.”

— Steve McConnell

“As usual in programming, if something is difficult for you to understand, it’s probably not a good idea.”

— Mark Lutz

“Remember, though, that debugging is as much art as it is computer science [..]”

— Michael A. Vine

“a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.”

— Russ Olsen

“review, even if it's only a line”

— Milly Taiden

“Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can…

— Brian Kernighan

“Lots of very funny code is written because people don’t take the time to understand the algorithm.”

— Robert C. Martin

“The art of programming is the skill of controlling complexity.”

— Marijn Haverbeke

“Sometimes you talk about the problems in fifty different ways until you find that one sentence that you can see makes their eyes pop,…

— Ed Catmull

“I should have known from watching Henry work at the office: programmers moved slowly and deliberately, and then waited to see the reaction. And…

— Jodi Picoult

“There is no code so big, twisted, or complex that maintenance can't make it worse.”

— Steve McConnell