Hard things Quote by Mattt Thompson

“Errors in code are what programmers call bugs, though when our programs go wrong, we prefer to call them “unexpected additional features.” Very”

— Paul Wilton

“No amount of excellence on the part of a computer can lead to the solution of a problem if the problem has been incorrectly…

— Edward de Bono

“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

“Software is like a science. We show correctness by failing to prove incorrectness, despite our best efforts.”

— Robert C Martin

I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or…

— Tony Hoare

Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything.

— Karl Lehenbauer

“Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it. Our applications are complex because we are ambitious to use our computers in ever…

— C.A.R. Hoare

In programming, it’s often the buts in the specification that kill you.

— Boris Beizer

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

— Steve McConnell

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

— Lewis Thomas

The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.

— Ellen Ullman

“A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.”

— Arthur Bloch