Programming Quote by Mattt Thompson

...one of hallmarks of a creative person is the ability to tolerate ambiguity, dissonance, inconsistency, things out of place. But one of the rules…

— Ralph Caplan

The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.

— Grady Booch

“Pragmatic Programmers are different. We are driven to find our bugs now, so we don't have to endure the shame of others finding our…

— Andrew Hunt

“Creative people are constantly surprised. They don’t assume that they understand what is happening around them, and they don’t assume that anybody else does…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Surprise is where creativity comes in.

— Ray Bradbury

The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility,…

— Edsger Dijkstra

“There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it so simple that there are obviously no errors, and…

— Tony Hoare

Sanity - a trick of agreement

— Allen Ginsberg

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids…

— Edsger Dijkstra

How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a dispensable luxury,…

— Edsger Dijkstra

“Insane: Mistakes the purpose of a conversation for a game of power; Reasons that weakness is more important than logic; Values selfish opinions over…

— Robin Sacredfire

It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one's cleverness

— François De La Rochefoucauld